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OK i would like to kno how to do a couple of things. First off i thing DSL OWNS....Ok so i would like to take my 128mb pen drive and partition it in to 2 FAT partitions WITH 2 SEPERATE DRIVE LETTERS IN WINDOWS... Then install DSL to one of them using the other for the backup file and other do dads. How would i go about doing this. (The partitions have to be FAT because i go back and forth between windows and linux.) So what i would really like to do is do a usb-zip install ...how it creats the 2 partitions but have the bigger one readable in windows!. Please help thnx
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Windows can only see the first partition on USB devices, afaik.
OK well can i do a USB ZIP install with the first partition being FAT holding backupfiles ... and the second holding the boot partition? Or something of the sort
Hi nd4spdbh!
Well I use DSL on a usb-drive (SandisK Cruzer Titanium 512 MB) and I have a lot of documentation that I need readily accessible from any computer. I just format my drive in fat32 (as a preparation) and unzip dsl-embedded to a directory on my harddrive. In the directory containing dsl I make some changes I want to have (like remastering the Knoppix-file and making the virtual hd in qemu bigger to be able to contain the things I want to have on it) and then I just copy all the files to my newly formatted usb-drive. So I only have one partition on the usb-drive. After that I just copy whatever I want to have onto my usb-drive and it will all be visible to windows. I have seen in this forum that it might be impossible to boot directly from the usb-drive with this setup on certain computers (depending on the bios). I can't do it for example. I use a creditcard-size cd to boot my usb drive with the following bootline-commands: dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 qemu frugal xsetup and everything works like a charm. I hope this can help you!
Have fun Y'all,
Best wishes meo
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