[Trinux-talk] USB Drive Booting Sort of Works Now

[Matthew F. <md...@gm...>]

http://www.threatmind.net/secwiki/UbuntuTrinux/BootProcess

Basically  the usb drive behaves just like a floppy (MS-DOS/vfat
formatted and you run syslinux on it from either Windows or Linux)

I've confirmed that is works on one (of my 3) USB drives (1 GB
Imation)  on a Dell Latitudes D600/510 and Compaq DL380 G4 Servers. I
used syslinux from Windows (XP) to install the boot loader
(ldlinux.sys)

Partitioning and formatting (and running syslinux /dev/sdb1) one of my
other drives did not work but I'm not sure if is the drive or
fdisk/mkdosfs/syslinux from Linux.

In any case the process appears to be more finicky than I would like
so I'd love to see how this works for others.

I copied the kernel/initrd from the iso at
http://www.threatmind.net/ubuntutrinux/ubuntutrinux-core-2.6.20.7-042207.iso

(BTW, these is actually a decent release with a working dhcp client
(dhcpcd, you have to run it yourself) tcpdump, ngrep, hping2, links,
ntpdate, trafshow) and some other stuff.  This should run on Pentium
classics and up (sorry i486) and it is only using about 22megs in ram.

- mdf