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?
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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"
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
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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Logged In: NO
you can't boot from them but you can use them as a storage
device for extra packages
Logged In: YES
user_id=16599
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?
Logged In: NO
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"
Logged In: NO
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"