Gonna get this sucker booting off USB drive the hard way.
Gonna get this sucker booting off USB drive the hard way.
Greets,
Do or die I'm going to get Puppy booting off my external USB drive.
Here's what I *think* I can do. Please remember I'm a Linux Noobie and Dummy(TM).
1) Format the drive as FAT32.
2) Copy all the puppy files from the CD.
3) Run a magic bootmaker thingie that makes the drive boot up like the CD would have. IE: I end up with a Live Puppy HDD (or a Live Puppy Thumbdrive even).
How do I do step 3?
Can this be done on a USB thumbdrive too? Make the thing bootable without needing a floppy to transfer control to the external device?
Do or die I'm going to get Puppy booting off my external USB drive.
Here's what I *think* I can do. Please remember I'm a Linux Noobie and Dummy(TM).
1) Format the drive as FAT32.
2) Copy all the puppy files from the CD.
3) Run a magic bootmaker thingie that makes the drive boot up like the CD would have. IE: I end up with a Live Puppy HDD (or a Live Puppy Thumbdrive even).
How do I do step 3?
Can this be done on a USB thumbdrive too? Make the thing bootable without needing a floppy to transfer control to the external device?
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- papaschtroumpf
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Used Wizard
Yes, the wizard was the first thing I tried. It reports the external as "SDC" and also says it's unmountable.
If I remember correctly, syslinux needs a fat16 filesystem, not fat32.
From the Syslinux page;
From the Syslinux page;
can i use syslinux on a hard drive.SYSLINUX can boot from a FAT12 or FAT16 filesystem partition on a hard disk (FAT32, introduced in Windows 95 OSR-2, is not supported, however.)
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Answers
Danlef:
Will Fat16 work on a 4Gig drive? I thought the limit on F16 was 2Gigs,
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nameless foo:
"set the boot flag"......what's that in English <grin>? Linux Noobie here.
I'd have to say no since I don't know what that is.
Let's try it this way please. The puppy wizard sees the drive as sdc but won't mount it. Guess I'll have to do this with Microcrap fdisk. I fdisk the drive and format it. Copy the pup files to it. Run syslinux on it. It starts to boot, says "LI" and locks up.
What step(s) did I miss?
Thanks
Will Fat16 work on a 4Gig drive? I thought the limit on F16 was 2Gigs,
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nameless foo:
"set the boot flag"......what's that in English <grin>? Linux Noobie here.
I'd have to say no since I don't know what that is.
Let's try it this way please. The puppy wizard sees the drive as sdc but won't mount it. Guess I'll have to do this with Microcrap fdisk. I fdisk the drive and format it. Copy the pup files to it. Run syslinux on it. It starts to boot, says "LI" and locks up.
What step(s) did I miss?
Thanks
- papaschtroumpf
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FYI, on my main machine which has a DFI NF2 Ultra motherboard, I can't boot from flash even though it boots fine in other computers. All I get is a "no operating system found".
I agree with the previous poster though getting stuck at "LI" would seem to point to LILO
I agree with the previous poster though getting stuck at "LI" would seem to point to LILO
Mandriva LE 2005 user and puppy newbie