USB booting :: Usb Booting



I tried the above and when it tried to install on my pendrive I got permission denied.  I tried formatting it fat16 and 32 with a linux ext2 partition then tried install you mention above but still got permission denied.  Anyone know why I get this error?
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Hi Batman

Sounds like you have a small write protect switch on your device, or maybe you mounted it?

Im not really sure

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USUL Thanks for your help and determination!  I'm up! I got it to work this way:

Formatted thumdrive under windows FAT32

booted from live DSL cdrom

XShells>root-access

wget http://ibiblio.org/etc/etc/etc

mydsl-load frugal_usb.tar.gz

echo "mtools_skip_check=1"> .mtoolsrc

frugal_usb.sh

The above is similar to what you posted above and I saw it elswhere posted but couldn;t find it in search. Anyway I didn't get permissions denied during install and it BOOTED hooray!  I have one question and this is my FIRST experience with LINUX:

I noticed that even though I'm on the thumdrive everything stays in RAMDRIVE meaning when I try to save anything anywhere and then reboot it is gone.  Is that just how it is? or can I do something else so this will work like a regular hard drive and will be able to save all my default internet connections and email settings etc.   THANKS AGAIN!  :D
FOUND it.  Here is the meo post that helped me which is similar to your usul and possibly others:

Posted: Nov. 19 2004,15:37  

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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.

Have fun Y'all, ten four,
meo
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Hey Batman

Thats really cool, I'm glad I have been of some help. I have no doubt that this thread will help others get DSL to load off their USB Pendrives.

Btw, because DSL is a Live distro it will always work in a ramdrive, thats just the way it is. However all is not lost because you can save your setting by using the Backup/Restore facility that's built in. If you open the dillo web browser and read the 'Saving Your Configuration' howto you'll be well informed.

All the best..

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