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#20 version for USB key

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2003-08-08
2002-10-14
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Those USB devices are pretty cheap these days. It would be
nice to add support for installation on them.

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  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    you can't boot from them but you can use them as a storage
    device for extra packages

     
  • Matthew Franz

    Matthew Franz - 2003-08-08
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  • Matthew Franz

    Matthew Franz - 2003-08-08

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    From: Matthew Franz <mfranz@cisco.com>
    To: Pascal Hard? <hardpasc@yahoo.fr>
    Cc: trinux-talk@lists.sourceforge.net
    Subject: Re: [Trinux-talk] boot on USB drive
    Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:38:22 -0500

    I'm assuming these drives use the USB storage (which is
    SCSI, actually)
    so you'd need a modified kernel that includes USB and the
    right SCSI
    stuff.

    Right now the only way to boot a non-floppy (or CD) drive is
    to create a
    DOS partition and then boot with loadlin. I don't have
    acccess to any
    devices that allow USB booting, so I haven't been able to
    try this. I'm
    assuming FreeDOS won't recognize it as a drive so that
    wouldn't work,
    but perhaps Win98 (can't remember if that has USB support or
    not)

    Booting off a floppy and loading packages from the drive is
    definitely
    doable, though.

    Anybody else have any ideas?

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    I have a Dell 5150 laptop and I can boot off usb. I've booted
    to FreeDOS then used loadlin to boot trinux. The usb drive is
    formatted fat 16. I haven't found a way to mount the flash
    drive (and get packages)... YET. I'm still working on that.
    After it boots it mounts a ramdisk as root. I did find a tool
    that can easily format and make a flash drive bootable with
    FreeDOS
    here: "http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/download/downl
    oad.asp?
    fileid=R65520&devid=&format=85297&sid=&os=Windows_NT&se
    archtype=age"

     
  • Nobody/Anonymous

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    I have a Dell 5150 laptop and I can boot off usb. I've booted
    to FreeDOS then used loadlin to boot trinux. The usb drive is
    formatted fat 16. I haven't found a way to mount the flash
    drive (and get packages)... YET. I'm still working on that.
    After it boots it mounts a ramdisk as root. I did find a tool
    that can easily format and make a flash drive bootable with
    FreeDOS
    here: "http://support.ap.dell.com/ap/en/filelib/download/downl
    oad.asp?
    fileid=R65520&devid=&format=85297&sid=&os=Windows_NT&se
    archtype=age"

     

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