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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,06:59 QUOTE
Tried the aformentioned one it doesn't work. I have been trying to get DSL to work using the flonix usb boot floppy. Apparently i must have the wrong boot floppy.. it will stop loading saying it could not find the flonix compressed file. Anyone have a working boot disk they could image? I'm really new to linux and so I haven't figured out he nuances to getting the miniboot extracted and edited properly myself.
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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,21:03 QUOTE
If you have the CD, rawrite (dd) the boot.img to floppy and try it out
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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,21:07 QUOTE
That won't work - the boot.img from CD doesn't have any USB modules and hence can't load a filesystem from a USB pendrive.
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Posted: Feb. 26 2004,13:14 QUOTE
Quote (Guest @ Feb. 24 2004,01:59)
Tried the aformentioned one it doesn't work. I have been trying to get DSL to work using the flonix usb boot floppy. Apparently i must have the wrong boot floppy.. it will stop loading saying it could not find the flonix compressed file. Anyone have a working boot disk they could image? I'm really new to linux and so I haven't figured out he nuances to getting the miniboot extracted and edited properly myself.

I 've tried by myself without troubles. I run Flonnix and DSL from my memory-stick.
But watch out: you need 3 floppy's. Read the tail of the page I 've posted. The first floppy must be written with rawrite (boot.img or something) and on the others you have to copy  vmlinuz and syconfig (as i can remember)

It go's fine, but my own modifyed flonnix wont run. I 've folowed the knoppix remastering howto. I can create my knoppix-file but when I want to run it, it go's really wrong..
Is there a good howto to modify usb-knoppix versions?

(/me still a newbie)
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Posted: Feb. 26 2004,20:10 QUOTE
Rob  over on Feather linux has posted a nice remastering page which might help.

http://featherlinux.berlios.de/remastering.html.
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