Re: Damn Small Linux => USB flashdrive (help needed)
- From: Beowulf <beowulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:19:25 -0600
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:53:44 -0700, ray inscribed to the world:
I did that a year or so ago. Just follow the directions and it all works
out.
I followed the instructions at
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_to_a_USB_Flash_Drive
and they do not work.
For one thing, after mounting the USB stick
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbfat16
the instructions at the DSL wiki say
'run "syslinux -s /dev/sdX1" (without the quotes)'
but doing that as root gives an error of no such device. So I instead do
what seems more logical,
# syslinux -s /dev/sda1
which returns no errors (/dev/sda1 is the USB stick). Other than that I
followed the wiki directions: I downloaded the dsl-embedded zip file, as
can be seen below. I then recreated and formatted the entire 512MB USB
stick as FAT16 and mounted it to a mount point of /mnt/usbfat16 using
Mandriva Control Center (mcc); I then copied dsl-3.1-embedded.zip to
/mnt/usbfat16 and unzipped it there (see file listing of /mnt/usbfat16
below), deleted the original zip file from /mnt/usbfat16, then I unmounted
/mnt/usbfat16; then I did
# syslinux -s /dev/sda1
to make it bootable. I rebooted my computer (BIOS settings have boot order
with "removable drive" as 1st boot device. My system still boots with the
GRUB menu coming up with typical boot to Linux or WindowsXP, nothing for
the USB drive, etc.
$ ls /home/beowulf/Desktop/
dsl-3.1-embedded.zip
$
$ su
Password:
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbfat16/
# ls -l /mnt/usbfat16/
total 1896
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110 May 27 2006 boot.msg*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 226 May 27 2006 dsl-linux.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 364 May 27 2006 dsl-windows.bat*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1592 May 27 2006 f2*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1595 May 27 2006 f3*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 256 May 27 2006 german.kbd*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 May 27 2006 knoppix/
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8092 Dec 16 13:00 ldlinux.sys*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 994807 May 27 2006 linux24*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 36649 May 27 2006 logo.16*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 801359 May 27 2006 minirt24.gz*
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 May 27 2006 qemu/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 468 May 27 2006 qemu-linux-notes.txt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1965 May 27 2006 readme.txt*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2075 May 27 2006 syslinux.cfg*
.
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