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Posted: Dec. 25 2004,15:34 QUOTE
Hi
I have a booting usbstick works really great.\
At home i have an older machine, which hasn't the boot option.
Is it possible to 'make' a boot floppy, which enables the usb ports on my machine, so i can finally boot from usb?
Tried bootusb-0.8 and  boot-0.8 floppies but that doesn't seem to work.
What am i doing wrong?
TIA!
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Posted: Dec. 26 2004,03:38 QUOTE
The bootusb floppy should work fine with the standard "Install to pendrive" version of DSL.

It probably WON'T work with the "triple-boot" qemu version of DSL.

Maybe the boot floppy is having trouble recognizing your USB controller.  It is also possble that you have a very old USB 1.0 controller that does not work properly without a BIOS update for your motherboard.  There are some older Dell computers that fit this description.

Good Luck.
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Posted: Dec. 26 2004,22:12 QUOTE
Wrote bootfloppy four times, fourth time it worked!.

This is FUN!

Thanx for the reply! :p
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Posted: Dec. 27 2004,01:43 QUOTE
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Posted: Dec. 27 2004,04:27 QUOTE
I have a Lexar 64MB USB Flash Drive that is detected at bootup and loads the DSL (0.8.4) prompt; however, when I type "DSL" it begins to load 'everything'.  It gets past the init. phase and eventually the screen goes blank and it stalls.  Any Suggestions?
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