cbagger01
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Posted: Dec. 27 2005,20:28 |
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You should backup your MP3 device to your hard drive (linux or FAT32 partition, not NTFS partition) before doing an installation.
First, boot DSL from livecd.
Then Upgrade to GNU Utils.
Then use emelfm to mount your hard drive partition, IE:
Start Emelfm and go to /mnt
Right click on hd partition name like "hda1" for example and choose Mount from the menu
Then open a terminal window and type:
dmesg | grep scsi -A 3
to find your mp3 player device name, for this example "sda". Then back it up with:
sudo su
dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/hda1/my_backup.img
It is a BIG backup, so you need plenty of free disk space and plenty of free time.
Restoration is the reverse of backup:
dd if=/mnt/hda1/my_backup.img of=/dev/sda
So now you are ready to play with your device, knowing that you have a big "UNDO" button in case of problems.
The USBHDD script will probably fail because your device is larger than 2.1GB and the FAT partition only supports sizes up to 2.1GB
So plan "B" is to either copy the files from the DSL cd over to your mp3 player and then use a DSL USB boot floppy disk to boot it up, or you can try an alternative bootloader like GRUB. The default DSL USB bootloader is SYSLINUX and SYSLINUX does not like FAT32 partitions (your mp3 player is probably formatted as a FAT32 data partition)
Search the forums or google for information on GRUB and USB booting.
Good Luck.
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