dinges
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Posted: May 11 2005,20:23 |
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I could not find a discription in the forum what to do when your old laptop has an USB port, but doesn't support booting from USB. So I found out, and this is how to do it.
Extract: Create a floppy with a fat16 file system. Copy the contents of the root of the pendrive with the dsl on it, so everything except the /knoppix directory. Change some content of syslinux.cfg. Set your laptop to boot from floppy with the pendrive in the USB port.
1) Create a floppy with a fat16 file system. Do not mount the floppy. I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't. The normal way is "/sbin/mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0", but this didn't work for me, and besides, dsl doesn't have it. So I used fdisk: /sbin/fdisk. Make a new primary partition, change the system id to 6 (fat16), set the boot flag to 'on'. Check with 'p'. Write the file system to disk.
2) Mount the pendrive with the dsl system on it: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1. Mount the floppy: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy. If you do this from a dsl from the pendrive, then sda1 is already mounted as /cdrom.
3) Copy the contents of /mnt/sda1 to /mnt/floppy: cp /mnt/sda1/* /mnt/floppy. Only the knoppix directory will not be copied.
4) Change the contents of /mnt/floppy/syslynux.cfg with an asci editor e.g. beaver.
a) change 'DEFAULT LINUX24' to 'DEFAULT dsl'
b) remove the full first line that starts with APPEND
c) remove the last line starting with 'LABEL userdef'
c) change all 'BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix' to 'BOOT_IMAGE=/dev/sda1/knoppix'
5) umount /mnt/floppy and /mnt/sda1.
You're done.
Any comment is appreciated.
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