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Peter Stuy
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Posted: May 06 2004,11:09 QUOTE
Jawel een beetje. Moet je me even emailen op pstuy@tpg.com.au
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PocketLnt
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Posted: May 07 2004,21:17 QUOTE
Quote (roberts @ April 29 2004,00:11)
I have only tested booting on a Lexar JumpDrive USB 2.0. USB 1.1 is too slow. USB 2.0 is just OK. Not sure if I can boot from 1.1 but then I don't have much reason to want to.

Funny you should mention that specific brand of USB Memory Stick. I too am trying to get DSL on a Lexmar Media JumpDrive 2.0 Pro, and the installation instructions you provided are very straightforward and understandable. However, none of my memory sticks (at the moment we have about 20 instock) seem to wish to properly boot DSL (or any Linux distributio nfor that matter).

I know these sticks are definately bootable as I can properly install and boot FreeDOS from the drives. However, I need a system-on-USB that can properly read a wide range of filesystems including FAT, FAT32, NTFS, and EXT2. Thus I think DSL will fit my needs greatly. The steps by which I've attempted to create the system are outlined below:

Step #0.1 - Download the  usbboot.img and rawrite the image to a floppy.

Step 0.2 - Download the latest DSL iso image and burn it to a CD.

Step #0.3 - Download and unzip the lastest release of SYSLINUX.

Step #1 - Boot from floppy to FreeDOS with USB device in the system.

Step #2 - Clear the partition table and MBR from the device:
fdisk /clearall 2

Step #3 - Create one primary DOS partitio non the device up to the maximum size of the drive and make it active:
fdisk /prio:495 2

Step #4 - Reboot the system back into FreeDOS and format the USB device while copying over the system files:
echo yes | format /u /s d:

Step #5 - Boot the system into Windows XP.

Step #6 - Copy the KNOPPIX folder from the burned CD to the root folder of the USB drive.

Step #7 - Copy the files from the imaged floppy to the root folder of the USB device

Step #8 - From a DOS prompt execute SYSLINUX to modify the boot sector of the device fro proper booting into DSL:
syslinux.exe -s e:

Step #9 - Boot into DSL from the device.

Step #10 - Enjoy a cold one.

The problem is that I cannot get past step #9. I've tried this method on mutiple USB devices and on multiple systems with no success. The systems just stop after the POST screen without going any further. If I remove the device the system boots into its normal operating system without problem.

As a test I later went back and tried to boot from the imaged floppy with the KNOPPIX folder on the USB device. Needless to say that did not go well.

With this information, is there anything that you can see that I am possibly doing wrong? Any ideas would be much appreciated.

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Posted: May 07 2004,22:20 QUOTE
Well, what you did differently, was the formatting and mbr clearing.
I have since found a really tiny usb mico pen drive from Iomega USB 2.0. No cap to lose. It is half the physical size of my Lexar JumpDrive. Anyway, same procedure as previously stated, it works. It is really small in physical size. But note, I did not format it. I figured it was made for Windows, the Syslinux.exe is for windows, so, leaving well enough along. I just copied the KNOPPIX folder, floppy image and applied the syslinux.exe command. Now, an interesting fact... Since reading your post, I decided to take a peek at how Linux sees this device. So booting from cdrom and then doing an fdisk -l /dev/sda1 shows a weird non-standard partition scheme. So, I would think that is where your problem may be. Knowning this I will leave well enough alone and will not be formatting my USB devices.
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Posted: May 08 2004,03:04 QUOTE
I currently use a Melodistik USB 1.1 Pendrive / MP3 player for my data storage needs, but if "small" is more important to you than drive + MP3 player + headphones, check this out:

http://www.extrememhz.com/Intellistick20-p1.shtml

This thing makes even the smallest Pen Drive look big.

One of these days I'll spring for one when the 1.0 gig model drops in price.
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