DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: USB pen-drive partition
Hi all,
might it be big trouble to change the USB pen-drive script, that it only formats a custom selected area on the pen-drive or only e.g. 150 MB or 200 MB for DSL ? Today even 512 MB USB sitcks are cheap and imho it´s a bit annoying to have a > 512 MB FAT partition which is not writeable for the DSL user. Would be nice to boot DSL from USB stick and use it as storage too.
Cheers CrewIt is possible to write to a FAT partition from within DSL.
It is also possible to boot from the USB stick and use it as storage.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Sep. 05 2005,22:34)
It is possible to write to a FAT partition from within DSL.
I used the USB-ZIP method of creating a bootable USB key. It creates two partitions, one small one (~50MB) for the syslinux and cloop image files, and one that contains the rest of the space available on the key. The script formats them both as FAT16.
The first partition (sda1) is full, and the files there require root access to modify.
The second partition (sda2) is empty, avalable for you to save files to it (e.g. DSL extensions, config backups, documents, etc.).
So, just mount it and have at it. As the dsl user, at a bash prompt:
dsl@dslbox: mount /mnt/sda2
Save your files there. That's all.If you are using DSL version 1.4, you should be able to write to the /cdrom (your FAT partition for a USBHDD installation) from the get-go.
If you type
mount
from within a terminal window, is /cdrom listed as read-only (ro) or read-write (rw)?Next Page...
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