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Topic: USB memory sstick drive, Can DSL be run from

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ripcrd6

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Posted: Aug. 26 2004,13:44

in 0.7.3 I had to start typing "dsl xsetup" at boot if I was using a USB moose. I can't remember if I didn't get the scroll wheel or if it didn't work at all. I just do it everytime now.

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invi[tus
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Posted: Aug. 27 2004,00:31

thanks ill give that a try.

the interesting thing is that the mouse works perfectly when booting from the cd ..

also the mouse is not detected at all during the "auto configuring devices"

as such it also doesnt work with mouse supporting console programs , like links, etc.

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DSL 0.73
PNY 64meg thumbdrive (usb 1.1)

invi[tus
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Posted: Aug. 27 2004,08:12

OK, i think ive found answer to my question ..
while looking thru the knoppix usb boot faq's i came accross this..

"The problem with USB 1.1 drivers is, that USB devices like Mouse will stop working. By only using the USB 2.0 driver there is no problem with that"

Tre Cool

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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,04:22

Use Rawrite to write the bootusb.img to a formatted floppy (trust me it fits). Pop it in, along with the thumb drive that you have the dsl 0.8.2 img on, type boot:dsl and it works!

Hope this helps someome...

Rawrite Link

Julian Stevens Offline

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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,12:56

Quote (roberts @ April 24 2004,10:54)

Sure. First download the DSL bootusb.img from one of the download sites. I would first start by making the boot floppy from this .img file. Next grab your pendrive, you don't need to format it, now copy over the KNOPPIX folder. Next test your setup by booting from the floppy. DSL will run from the USB pendrive. Now, if your machine will boot from USB, copy the contents of the floppy onto the root directory of the pendrive. Do not copy to inside the KNOPPIX folder. Then go grab syslinux from syslinux
You only need to run syslinux with a target of the usb pendrive. On windows for example do syslinux.exe -s E: Where drive E corresponds to your pendrive. Finally change your BIOS to boot from USB. I also had to change my BIOS to usb-keyboard in order for the boot from USB to work.

When I try to boot my USB drive from the floppy boot disk, the X server fails to start up. I get:

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X Server ":0.0"

Any ideas what the problem might be?

Thanks,
Julian

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