hi all
this is a thread to try to figure out
how to use a usb portable hard drive
instead of a usb flash drive
as boot and storage media
more space
no rewrite problems
can take all your stuff from computer to computer
id really like it to be like the old 217 was
with the save file on a read/write usb
i think next ill look at my old 217 usb flash drive
and see if i can duplicate it on my usb portable hard drive
any ideas are appreciated
wanderer
Booting from a usb hard drive instead of a usb flash drive
just use the boot paramater:
pmedia=usbhd
However, if you do this make sure you are using usb3.0. USB2.0 has slow I/O so running directly mounted over USB2.0 might not be the best option.
pmedia=usbhd
However, if you do this make sure you are using usb3.0. USB2.0 has slow I/O so running directly mounted over USB2.0 might not be the best option.
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I use usb hard drives instead of usb flash drives all the time.
USB 2 isn't that slow (especially when it's all your Duo Core era computer supports).
This is how I set them up.
What I did the last go around is use gparted to make the 1st partition ext4 bootable flag around 70 Gigabytes [edit: corrected used to say megabytes, which would be silly] (the same size as my internal ext4 partition), then the second partition NTFS for the rest of the drive.
Then, copy some puppies to individual folders on the 1st partition then use Grub4Dos on that drive to make the drive bootable and create the menu.1st file. After that, you can edit the menu.1st to do manual frugal installs.
Although it may not be relevant, I then take my internal 70 GB linux partition with all my Dogs and Puppies, and use rsync to back them up the drive so if my computer were to blowup, I can be right back where I was with any new computer by booting to usb. This requires some manual editing of the menu.1st file so I have entries that work on both the internal drive and the usb drive.
*There are some computer bios that don't like grub4dos on usb drives. If it doesn't work, you can use syslinux instead.
USB 2 isn't that slow (especially when it's all your Duo Core era computer supports).
This is how I set them up.
What I did the last go around is use gparted to make the 1st partition ext4 bootable flag around 70 Gigabytes [edit: corrected used to say megabytes, which would be silly] (the same size as my internal ext4 partition), then the second partition NTFS for the rest of the drive.
Then, copy some puppies to individual folders on the 1st partition then use Grub4Dos on that drive to make the drive bootable and create the menu.1st file. After that, you can edit the menu.1st to do manual frugal installs.
Although it may not be relevant, I then take my internal 70 GB linux partition with all my Dogs and Puppies, and use rsync to back them up the drive so if my computer were to blowup, I can be right back where I was with any new computer by booting to usb. This requires some manual editing of the menu.1st file so I have entries that work on both the internal drive and the usb drive.
*There are some computer bios that don't like grub4dos on usb drives. If it doesn't work, you can use syslinux instead.
Last edited by dancytron on Sat 14 Mar 2020, 06:24, edited 2 times in total.
