Re: USB Boot to R50 Thinkpad

From: Jumbo Shrimps (JShrimps_at_Hotmail.com)
Date: 07/29/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:48:20 -0400

    I've tried Koppix and Runt, but both need either a cd or a floppy drive.
    My laptop does have a cd, but we have purchased a SanDisk 128 meg
    thumb drive for each laptop, hence I'm trying to create a USB mini kernel
    in case XP doesn't boot.

    I installed the http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net file on my RH 9 box.
    All the elements to create a mini kernel are there on hda1 under
    /linux_mobile_system_v1.0:
    /images
    /boot
    /syslinux-1.52 directories
    and lsmrd.lmg.nogz, lmsrd.img, mkramdisk files, etc.

    Not sure what is the next step to make the kernel on the 128meg SanDisk
    thumb drive,
    mounted as /dev/sda1 into a bootable system.

    "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message
    news:jwv6588ay5s.fsf-monnier+comp.os.linux.portable@gnu.org...
    > > What are the steps to make a 128 USB flash memory stick contain a
    complete
    > > kernel, using RH 9.0?
    >
    > I recommend you don't start from a distribution like RH.
    > Such distributions always assume they have a writable hard-drive available
    > for /var and such stuff: using the USB drive for that would eat up the
    > limited-max-number-of-writes of your flash memory too quickly (at least
    for
    > my taste).
    > You want to use a distribution that directly works off of a read-only
    media
    > (CD or flash).
    >
    > > Of course, I could do the whole thing from a bootable CD,
    > > BUT that wouldn't be any fun now, would it?
    >
    > Agreed, except when the bootable CD happens to be your FSF membership card
    > (which incidentally is using the www.lnx-bbc.org distribution which should
    > fit on a 128MB flash disk).
    >
    >
    > Stefan "who failed to boot his Thinkpad X30 off of a USB disk"
    >
    >
    > PS: Check out also http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net/ which seems to aim
    at
    > USB disks rather than CDs.

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