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This is good encouragement to try out DSL on usb pendrive.

I have a simple question (as I know next to nothing on Linux):

I have winimage, dsl-0.9.2.iso (is this the bootimage you refer to?), and daemon tools.

What is filesystem image 0.9.0.1?

Thanks for your help and patience

Quote (ke4nt1 @ Jan. 17 2005,04:33)

With the exception of using winblows to do this ( yuck! )
your post and tutorial are very well done.. Good Work.

For those of us who don't have, or want,
a $200.00 - 1.5GB + copy of winblows XP on our systems,
could you explain how to do this , using only your little DSL CD and a USBkey?

That would be even better!

73
ke4nt

Although I haven't tried it, I'd imagine to put it on the USBkey you would just have to make sure the key has a partition that is writable in linux. Then use the USB installation script in the menu under Apps>Tools to install it on the USBkey. That seems to me to be the easiest way to accomplish this.

I have DSL working on my flashdrive. Sorry for what now looks like silly questions, due to my lack of knowledge.

Other than that - the instructions worked without a hitch.

Thank you

I'm glad everyone finds this tutorial useful. In response to Ke4nt:

I didn't put how to do it from DSL in my tutorial because thats already been covered in several other tutorials/posts ;p If they're inadequate I'd be happy to do that as well, not to step on anyones toes though.

I did it from Windows to make it easier for people who weren't experienced with Linux / Partitions / Stuff like that to have a simple way to install to pendrive and run that way without having to reboot and go into an operating system that is (as yet) foreign to them (but hopefully after rebooting on the pendrive, will become second or even first nature to them!) ;D

It is also now possible to ascertain or request / comment / add to a LIVE book of support knowledge being put together by myself and SaidinUnleashed at http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/51

I hope this tutorial continues to be useful ;) Congratulations to those who have been successful thus far.

Thanks for your response, tronik ..

Let me repeat that your efforts and work on both your tutorials
and the book documentation are very worthy. Again, good work!

I guess my thinking is leaning towards "less dependence" on M$.
I wouldn't 'choose' to tell someone how to do this in winblows.
If I were asked, my response would be more along the lines of ..
" Well, boot up your liveCD, and we'll go from there... "

I wouldn't want people thinking you "need" winblows to do this...

I'd need to install winblows just to follow your tutorial !
Others may have a M$ computer nearby, at work, or a relatives machine,
but won't feel comfortable downloading and installing rawrite,
or winimage, or isobuster/ultraiso, etc. onto that box.
and truly, there is no need to do so....

But I understand that by getting more people using DSL,
thru whatever means they are successful in doing so,
is only good for DSL.. so I'll retreat a bit, but
with the final thought that when we can,
especially in the official DSL documentation,
ALWAYS try to describe the "DSL" way of accomplishing things,
and leave any other alternate methods as "alternates" ..

73
ke4nt

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