cbagger01
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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,21:44 |
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It should be possible to create a single partition size of 250MB for a fake ZIP drive (IE, USBZIP) and install both the DSL files and also use the same partition for your backups and restores.
In the distant past in order to to backup/restores in DSL, you needed to have a second data partition. This arrangement was usually:
1st Partition: 50MB FAT partition for the DSL system files (\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX, etc)
2nd Partition: 200MB Linux EXT2 partition for the DSL backup/restore space.
However, MS Windows has two problems with this arrangement:
1) Windows can only display the contents of a USB drive's 1st partition only.
2) Windows cannot understand how to read/write to a Linux EXT2 partition.
But in newer versions of DSL, you CAN backup and restore to the same data partition as long as the cheatcode "frugal" was added to the default list of boot parameters.
So it should be possible to repartition your USB drive so that it has a single 250MB FAT data partition, with backup/restore set to device "sda1" and the rest will be available for storage in both Windows and in Linux.
However, you do lose the 6MB at the end of the drive because the original ZIP format was 250MB and not 256MB
Unless someone has a script to do this automatically, you will need to manually do this using utilities like
sudo cfdisk /dev/sda
and
1) Install dosfstools from the myDSL respository and
sudo mkfs -t msdos /dev/sda1
and then manually copy over the livecd files, making sure that KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX is all uppercase letters.
Finally, edit the syslinux.cfg file so that the word "frugal" is added to the append lines
It is not for the faint of heart, but I am confident that it can be done.
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