nevermind...decided to lose the USB key...I was gonna have a hard drive anyway, so why not just do a frugal install there
Quote (ke4nt1 @ Oct. 02 2004,17:20)
Curious? Did the Apps > Tools > Install to USB Pendrive script in 0.8.2 not work for you? It's a lot less work for those fingers ..
this also didnt work for me. i prepared my stick just the way you described it above (additional i marked the fat16 partition as a boot partition. was this maybe a mistake? after one more reboot, i couldnt access the usb-pen at all anymore. very strange. also i had very long breaks during the boot process of DSL, while the system checked the usb devices. something went wrong and i dunno what it is). the usb-install-script asked where to install DSL, which was sda1 and then the usb-pen flashed once, the terminal closed itself and was it. now i try this other tutorial (http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=17;t=3153) but sad that it didnt work with the DSL live cd. this would have been a neat thing, but since i have no clue what it could be, i will just try another way. maybe someone can light up the dark a little bit .
homry
/edit: i cannot even try the other installversion, because my usb-pen seems to be totally screwed up. my standard linux system wont boot anymore with the stick plugged in. with dsl the stick wont get recognized anymore, so i cannot partition it further or delete partitions or format the pen. in windows an usb-pen is recognized, but i cannot write to it. the HP-tools tells me that the stick is write-protected, when i want to format it. but there is no trigger for writeprotection on the stick. for information: its a sandisk cruzer 512mb. can someone help me in this issue? thanksIf the bios of my laptop doesn't support booting from usb what can I do to try out DSL installed on a usb-drive? Thankful for any suggestion.
Have fun y'all, meoTry downloading the usb boot floppy image from the dsl web site and use rawrite2.exe or rawrite32.exe to write it out to a floppy disk.
Then boot with this floppy.Thanks cbagger01 for helping me out with making a boot-disk to make usb-booting possible on my machine. That was just a part of the problem though. I have the infamous SanDisk mini cruzer 256 MB with witch so many have had problems when trying to make a frugal install of DSL. With help of the posts of “roberts” I finally made it work. I have made a little HOWTO so that others may benefit from the conclusions I have made. So here it comes:
DSL->USB-HOWTO
Setup instructions:
1. Plugin the usb-drive
2. Boot from DSL 0.8.x cdrom
3. Copy the files: bootusb-0.8.img and frugal_usb.tar.gz to your home directory
4. At the system menu select Shells-> root-access
Issue the following commands:
5. #mydsl-load frugal_usb.tar.gz
6. #echo “mtools_skip_check=1” > .mtoolsrc
7. #frugal_usb.sh
Then follow the onscreen prompts and it should work (at least it did for me on the infamous SanDisk 256 MB mini cruzer). I might mention that I started with reformatting it under Windows with fat32. Hope someone have some use of these lines.
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