I also have a lexar 128 jumpdrive. It boots and works fine on several of my systems using DSL. Both my systems offer the options to boot from USB-ZIP , which works. If your motherboard does not offer this option, you may need to attack the problem another way.
The trick for me was to use the sfdisk utility, and make the sectors per track at 32
sfdisk -S32 /dev/sda
This makes a type 83 partition on your key. Reboot, and use cfdisk to change it to a type 6 (fat16)
Then run the "Install to USB Pendrive" option from menu.
Reboot, and voila..
I just redid it to work with 0.9 .... just to walk thru the steps again.. no issues..
73 ke4ntI got this error massage to trying to boot DSL.
Code Sample
Xinit: No such file directory (errno 2): Unable to connect to X server Server error
Is Damn Small Linux trying to connect to the Interet? or what this mean?There is something wrong with the Xserver, the gui program used in linux. Try reburning it, hope that works.
73 kb1ltw dschadlich@gmail.com irc.synsmash.net #fallnetI though I would share this you… how I dual boot my USB stick to MSDOS and DSL. If this is too long / not required then please delete it, but I thought it might help some newbies..
In a windows ( XP in my case) download the USB format tool from the HP site (http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html )
I formatted the USB device, and then copied the entire Windows98 boot disk to the USB stick. Rebooted from the USB stick. Once the ramdisk had been installed with all the utilities I copied all of these to a \dos folder. Then I updated the config.sys file to
[menu] menuitem=DOS, Start with DOS menuitem=DSL, Start DSL Linux menudefault=DOS,2 menucolor=7,0
[DOS] device=dos\himem.sys /testmem:off device=dos\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 rem device=btdosm.sys rem device=flashpt.sys device=dos\btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 rem device=aspi2dos.sys rem device=aspi8dos.sys rem device=aspi4dos.sys rem device=aspi8u2.sys device=dos\aspicd.sys /D:mscd001 files=10 buffers=10 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256@ECHO OFF IF "%config%"=="DSL" GOTO DSL
set EXPAND=YES SET DIRCMD=/O:N set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15 set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C rem set tmp=c:\
path=\dos;.
LH dos\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM% rem clean up environment variables set CDROM= set LglDrv= echo . echo Booted of Keiths Private USB memory echo Please ring 01473 641662 echo . GOTO QUIT
:DSL \KNOPPIX\loadlin.exe \KNOPPIX\linux24 initrd=\KNOPPIX\minirt24.gz rem \boot\loadlin.exe \boot\isolinux\linux24 initrd=\boot\isolinux\minirt24.gz
:QUIT rem devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 lastdrive=z
[DSL] [COMMON]
and the autoexec.bat to ..
@ECHO OFF IF "%config%"=="DSL" GOTO DSL
set EXPAND=YES SET DIRCMD=/O:N set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15 set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C rem set tmp=c:\
path=\dos;.
LH dos\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001 /L:%CDROM% rem clean up environment variables set CDROM= set LglDrv= echo . echo Booted of Keiths Private USB memory echo Please ring 01473 641662 echo . GOTO QUIT
Now all to do is to reboot and choose the relevant OS you want to use from the USB stick.
This has been tested with a ebuyer 64M and 256M special, and a Kingston 2G USB devices. What I would like to do, and probably impossible is to tell DSL that I want to use a 2 button mouse and run the first windows manager in 1024x768x32.DSL 0.91 I think I have my USB loaded, using the built-in script form a CD boot. Now I hang while booting from USB. I get the "L" of LILO, and then stop. Should a boot loader (like lilo) be in the MBR of the USB device? If not, what is the easiest way to clean out my USB MBR?Next Page...
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