Sebastian
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Posted: Feb. 10 2005,12:35 |
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Since a while I use an external hdd.
The HDD itself is from Toshiba (20Gb 2.5") and mounted in a 2.5" external casing.
The External casing is usb1.1 and usb2.0
It has 2 partitions, 1gb fat16 16k and 19gb fat32 32K
First of all had problems with cfdisk, concerning mounting and read/write. Solved it and can open cfdisk, partition 1 is bootable (the fat16 one).
Used the dsl-installer which didn't work because of the format. Later on when the right format choosed could use installer but no file's appeard.
Did copy the knoppix folder to partition 1, booted with boot floppy, no problems can boot dsl.
Put the floppy's files on partition 1, and used syslinux -f -s, al appeared normal, but then strange things go happen 
Without boot floppy, loads the DSL Bussiness Card Logo, and the prompt for F2/Enter. Normally here should appear BOOT: with the blinking cursor but it just doesn't appear.
It just hangs, and nothing helps except re-booting...
On almost any machine with good USB I can boot with floppy, and use dsl from the hdd.
Anybody has any solutions to booting with hdd only (no boot flop)...
The reason for al this, is that I use alot of different computers (ict student), and want to acces my file's with out the problems of local/roaming profiles under windows. So i decided that the external hdd could be used in combination with a os (preferably linux). So i can put everything i want on it, and use it everywhere (almost). I first figured out knoppix would be a great deal (had some experience with it). But i ranned into dsl and figured out this would be perfect since it is so small.
I hope anybody has any solution or advice...
Sebastian
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