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Topic: booting from USB device via floppy, bootstrap control transfer

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woverin

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Posted: Jan. 02 2004,17:36

You guys can use boot disk from flonix linux which is based on DSL.
http://linuxdocs.tuxfamily.org/flonix/index.php?page=download

burn it with win rawrite

Download Flonix linux usb edition
Extract all files to usb thumb drive. Then replace Knoppix folder from DSL.
It worked fine for me.

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Posted: Jan. 03 2004,22:19

Thanks, I'll try flonix then. I'll post results here for everyone.

Regards,

Aeros

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Posted: Jan. 06 2004,23:51

Works like a charm with flonix, thanks for the suggestion.

Regards,

Aeros

RiKoRn

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Posted: Feb. 02 2004,21:25

Owkee, I've been trying to boot DSL from my usb device. I am using the runt (3.2) boot image, during boot it recognizes my storage device, and then something goed wrong :P

VFS: Mounted root umsdos filesystem
Trying to move old root to /initrd...Failed
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory...ok
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
Warning: unable to open initial console
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel

and B.T.W. http://linuxdocs.tuxfamily.org/flonix/index.php?page=download is dead so can't use that one. :angry:

so can somebody help me???

Regards,

RiKoRn

WorteL ZijN iS FijN
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Posted: Feb. 24 2004,00:54

Hellowm

I was also searching for a distro that runs from an usb-stick. DSL is a great distro so I searched for tzo days for the flonix boot-floppy. Now I ve found it but I have to try it by my self. Dont know if it works..
http://www.geocities.com/ilinty74/

check the tail of the page..
good luck

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