USB Boot on Panasonic CF-T1

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mulluysavage
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USB Boot on Panasonic CF-T1

#1 Post by mulluysavage »

So far I've tried the iso 9660 boot option on the Flash installer, no dice, it has a Phoenix BIOS V1.50L13, boot options are "USB CD Drive," "Floppy Drive" (even though it has no floppy disk,) "Hard Drive."

It would be sweet to get it up! Tiny machine, 256MB RAM, 60G HD.

Anyone with any tips?

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#2 Post by rokytnji »

Is there a cd drive on the CF-T1. My cf-48 came with a cdrw drive. I also have a inbuilt floppy drive. I can usb boot using a PLOP bootmanager cd. I also keep a plop boot floppy disk for the same reason.

http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/plpbt.bin.html#runcd

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#3 Post by greengeek »

Forum member ETP made a couple of comments regarding USB boot and Phoenix BIOS here:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 5&start=22
and
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 5&start=28

He recommends an HP utility for preparing the USB stick in an HDD format that Phoenix BIOS's are happy to boot from. I am sure he would be happy for you to PM him for more info.

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USB Boot on Panasonic CF-T1

#4 Post by ETP »

mulluysavage

The HP utility & a cut down version of the Dos files can be downloaded here:

http://www.mydrive.ch/

Guest user name -- maddog@puppy4
Password -- maddog

Then follow the instructions in the "Bay Wolf" link:

http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

Once you have applied these to the stick if the BIOS can then see the stick as
a selectable HDD you can then (back in XP or Win 2000) download syslinux and
make the stick bootable.

The Dos files on the stick can be removed before you apply syslinux.exe -maf X:

You then need to do a manual frugal install of your pup.
Regards ETP
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#5 Post by mulluysavage »

I think I will try to do the USB boot as a finer adjustment to increase battery life. I have booted from an external USB CD ROM drive.

Thing is, it's impossibly slow. The CPU maxes to 100% launching Seamonkey for 15 minutes. This doesn't seem right to me - could something be wrong?

I ran Damn Small Linux and Firefox launches in seconds.

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#6 Post by mulluysavage »

866 MHZ CPU
256 MB RAM

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#7 Post by greengeek »

Yes, definitely something wrong. Which one was so slow? was it the usb boot or CD?

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