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Posted: Nov. 10 2006,16:59 |
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| Quote (roberts @ Nov. 08 2006,17:35) | Key, I finally got my hands on a write protectable pendrive. It is a Kingston drive, with a write protect switch on the side. Installed DSL frugal_hdd to the pendrive, write enabled, of course! Then shutdown system. Placed the write protected standard boot floppy in foppy drive, and moved the switch on the pendrive to write protect. Plugged in the write protected pendrive and booted DSL. No problems.
The only way I can cause an error code to display, is when I add the boot option frugal. But of course, that would! Boot code frugal is not appropriate on a read only device. |
Thanks for this Information, roberts.
Unfortunately, I haven't had success with the USB-HDD installation. Either there where problems during installation or during boot-process afterwards. I don't remember exactly.
Probably USB-HDD isn't fully supported on my old computer.
USB-ZIP works fine on all computers, I have tested.
But, with boot-floppy first and write-protected usb-pen (usb-zip installation) second, I have got the following errors during boot process:
"{CRE}looking for DSL image in ....
Setting paths: .. not found
.. not found .. not found ..
directory nonexistent
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 1:03"
Keyboard LEDs blink and I had to power of the computer.
There is no problem when the usb-pen is write enabled.
With the write-enabled switch, it works fine.
Doesn't matter, if boot-floppy is used before or not.
If the usb-pen is write-protected, it boots fine WITHOUT the boot-floppy. As soon as a boot-floppy is used before in conntection with the write-protected usb-pen, the boot fails as written above.
Where is the problem with this usb-pen-zip installation?
Is it possible to make this working?
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