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Topic: Installing Linux On USB pen Drive, help

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jester
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Posted: Nov. 24 2005,14:41

I have the same problem as tomb, is there maybe a mistyped script running?

Since the Debian wiki shows no sda11...

*

mkdir dsl_temp

mkdir dsl_usb

mount -o loop dsl-0.8.3.iso dsl_temp

cp -a dsl_temp/* dsl_usb

cd dsl_usb

mv boot/isolinux/* ./

rm -Rf boot

mv isolunux.bin syslinux.bin

mv isolunux.cfg syslinux.cfg

cd..

mkdir usb_pen

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 U usb_pen

cp -a dsl_usb/* usb_pen

umount usb_pen

syslinux /dev/sda

Thanks

Jester

Jester
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Posted: Nov. 24 2005,15:02

Stupid me!

No error in the script but in my thinking: when typing sda instead of sda1 everything works fine.

Jester

Taake
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Posted: Nov. 24 2005,16:25

Hello!

I've got another problem... I did the installation to my usb pendrive and I tried to boot from it. Well it works fine till a point where it says:

"Can't find Knoppix file system"

is that an error on my usb stick... do I have to make an additional Knoppix partition in my stick or where is the error?

Lupin III
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Posted: Nov. 29 2005,13:36

This is how to install DSL to a USB Key from Windows without burning the ISO and without having to boot into DSL from the CD and partition the USB key (of course if you want to partition it you'll have to use a partitioning tool, cfdisk, or something else like that).

Step 1
Procure USB Key and make sure it is formatted with FAT, just to be sure its working.

Step 2
Download the images necessary (bootusb-0.8.img and dsl-2.0-embedded.zip) and also download WinImage (a share/freeware program -- google it).

Step 3
Open WinImage. Select the File - Open, navigate to and select the boot image you wish to use (bootusb-0.8.img). Select Disk - Use removable disk (x:) with x: being the drive letter of your USB key you wish to install DSL onto.

Step 4
Select Disk - Write Disk. It may say "image must be resized" blah blah. Do it.

Step 5
Once that is complete, view the USB drives contents in windows Explorer. Unzip the files in dsl-2.0-embedded.zip overwriting the files in the root of the USB Key. This basically replaces bootimage 0.8 (since it seems to not be updated with the system release) with the current bootimage.

Step 6
Confirm overwriting of the files. Assuming your bios is up to date, and you've read a lot of the other facts on making sure your usb key will work with your bios, etc, then all you should have to do is reboot and set the USB drive as the boot drive. DSL boots up, loads, and thats where I'm writing this from.

polik
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Posted: Dec. 01 2005,10:07

Hello,
I got the same error found by Taake one week ago.
I have something to add: I had downloaded dsl2.0RC2.iso, burnt a CD and then made a bootable USB, following the standard procedure and writing do USB-zip. It booted and worked fine.
Then I decided to use the final release: I firstly removed both partitions from my USB key, then I followed the same steps as the last install, but the message
"Can't find Knoppix file system"
was displayed.
I thought it was a bad download, but it's not the case.
Any ideas?

A question to Lupin III: did you choose that method because the standard did not work?

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