vk2emq
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Posted: Mar. 03 2004,05:33 |
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See my reply to booting from iso
1. You need to get access to a dos - win9x machine format the flash card with FAT format and add dos system files to make flash bootable. Try to boot the flash card into dos - you should get the a: prompt -a little retro I know .... but if you got this far you should be able to boot DSL from the flash ...
2. you now need to know what linux device the flash card is ; boot from a DSL CD with the flash in place ( having first set the bios to boot from CD as highest priority device) and note the reference to the flash card in the boot messages - it is most likely /dev/sda1 - if the messages are not on the screen long enough to see , once DSL has finished booting from CD open a terminal screen and use the command
dmesg | less
to view the messages
3. having established the device name for the flashcard copy the knoppix, vmlinuz, miniroot, loadlin files etc as per my previous posting and insert the correct reference for the flash device in the loadlin boot batch file, eg
root=/dev/sda1
4. as per previous posting I've used this procedure to boot from Flash with either a USB adapter or an IDE adapter to a VIA EPIA-M motherboard
vk2emq
John
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