Hi Ian,
I suggest you subscribe to the flalug list at http://www.flalug.org/list.html
Our list is actually on your server.
Best regards,
Smitty
On Friday 26 September 2003 11:25, flalug@nks.net wrote:
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> From: Ian Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>
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> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Question about USB Pen Drive
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> cpace@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> > I have recently acquired a USB Pen Drive and it works
> > great under linux. What I want to do is to actually
> > put a linux distro on it and boot to the USB drive
> > (my bios supports this funtion). I'm working with
> > DamnSmall Linux (www.damnsmalllinux.org) since it is
> > based on Knoppix and is supposed to have good
> > hardware detection. My problem is that I am trying
> > to figure out how to make the USB Pen drive bootable?
>
> Your BIOS needs to support booting from your USB device. Otherwise, you
> will need to bootstrap off of another BIOS bootable media.
>
> > I believe I could mount it with my main linux box and
> > then switch the root fs to the pen drive but the
> > damnsmall linux distro has a compressed image and I
> > am unsure as to how they get the bootloader to
> > decompress it?? I am open to suggestions for another
> > distro as long as it has X windows. I have a 256M
> > Pen Drive but would like something that fits on 128M
> > or less. Any ideas, suggestions or references to
> > information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> This is a motherboard BIOS limitation. You can always boot your USB
> kernel from floppy and continue using the USB device for your rootfs.
>
> Some Phoenix BIOSes (particularly laptops) have USB bootable floppy
> support, which is simply a standard usb-storage device. Unfortunately,
> they don't seem to permit booting from a USB Pen drive (I've tried to do
> this on my VAIO to no avail).
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