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Posted: Sep. 09 2007,17:10 QUOTE

Ok, I admit it I forgot how to create a 1.7Mb boot floppy. I tryed dd if=bootfloppy.img of=/dev/fd0 and get the no space left message. I also tried dd if=bootfloppy.img of=/dev/fd0u1680 and that just sends records in and out somewhere.

What's the trick guys?

Thanks


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Posted: Sep. 09 2007,17:18 QUOTE

There is a floppy tool in the DSLpanel for such things.

However, I doubt you will be able to cherry pick items from both floppies to fit on a single floppy.

Likely you would have to have a 2.88MB super floppy.

A more likely senario is to place the pcmcia/ from the second floppy onto your usb pendrive and then change the loadpcmia function to first insmod the usb modules and then mount the pendrive under additional_modules.
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Posted: Sep. 09 2007,19:26 QUOTE

Thanks for the tip.

Alright then, I'm going to need a little help with this. I've added the pcmcia directory to the usb sdb2 flash drive. Sdb1 contains the boot image. I have a sdc1&2 duplicate flash drive attached to the cardbus adapter. I'm ready to go.

I have no idea where the loadpcmia function is. What file are we talking about and where is it?


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Posted: Sep. 10 2007,05:17 QUOTE

Having two threads on your request does not really help matters.
I am therefore closing the second thread.

I was under the impression that you had been using a boot floppy with a pendrive but your computer only supports usb 1.1 and you were successful but just wanted more speed.

I thought you wanted to run the pcmcia 2 floppy system, which works with a CF/PCMCIA.

However, you did not like having to change to the second floppy.

I thought you wanted to try placing the second floppy contects on the usb 1.1 pendrive, then boot floppy, usb 1.1 pendrive and finally searching for KNOPPIX on the CF/PCMCIA.

This should be possible by modifying the linuxrc script inside minirt24.gz, and in particular the loadpcmcia function.

You would have to insmod the usbmodules and then change the existing mount floppy command to mount the pendrive in order to use the pcmcia device.

Is this indeed what you are attempting?
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Posted: Sep. 10 2007,14:43 QUOTE

yes

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