Something I forgot to mention, I also do not have a floppy drive and have not had for years.
Art On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:02 -0400, Mark Bailey wrote: > Hi Art: > > I am far from an expert here, but there are two models for booting > from a USB stick. One is a "superfloppy" model where the entire > USB stick is formatted as a single giant floppy disk and the > other mode is where the USB stick has an MBR and is treated > basically like a hard disk. > > See http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/usbkeys > > Some (most?) BIOS's only support one mode or the other. Linux > can support either, using device /dev/sda (superfloppy) or > /dev/sda1 (like a hard disk). > > # To format the drive in superfloppy format, you simply do: > > mkdosfs -I /dev/sda > > > # Formatting in harddisk requires more steps, if it's not allready > formatted that way: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 > > > to erase the start of the USB Key. After that you can do a "fdisk > /dev/sda" and create a new FAT partition (FAT16 is suitable). To install > a MBR and format the key afterwards, do > > install-mbr /dev/sda --force > mkdosfs -I /dev/sda1 > > Have you checked to see if there is a D: drive? Have you used the > "attrib" command to see if the files are "hidden" for some reason? > > Good luck! Let me know if either of these suggestions help. > > Mark > > Art Fore wrote: > > That did not work. Look at the partitions in yast partitioner, it > > shows /dev/sdd a the disk drive, and /dev/sdd1 as a fat partition. > > executing ms-sys -s /dev/sdd ; sync, I get Public domain syslinux master > > boot record successfully written to /dev/sdd > > Executing syslinux /dev/sdd ; sync, I get > > syslinux: this doesn't look like a valid FAT filesystem > > Executing syslinux /dev/sdd ; sync, I get a successful install. Tried > > deleting the sdd1 partition, no luck. Tried copying the files to sdd, > > that went ok, but they ended up in sdd1. > > > > Does not make sense to me. > > > > I would like to have the whole 256 meg as dos drive, but the .bin > > and .exe flash burning files do not even show up when booted to dos. > > > > Art > > > > On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 13:13 -0400, Mark Bailey wrote: > >> Try copying the files to /dev/sdd > >> > >> Since you had to do syslinux to /dev/sdd, and /dev/sdd1 > >> didn't look like a valid FAT filesystem, I'm not sure > >> what the copy to /dev/sdd1 actually did. > >> > >> Mark > >> > >> Art Fore wrote: > >>> Have been trying unsuccessfully for two days to get freedos on a cruzer > >>> 256 meg memory stick. Best procedure I found was > >>> http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/flashing_bios.html > >>> but did not work in the last step > >>> syslinux /dev/sdd1 ; sync > >>> syslinux: this doesn't look like a valid FAT filesystem > >>> > >>> Why is this? How do I fix this? > >>> > >>> Art > >>> > >>> Gave it one last try and got it. The last two statements are a little > >>> misleading. It shows both /dev/sd??. > >>> Last statement should have been syslinux /dev/sdd ; sync. > >>> > >>> Still have one problem. I copied the .rom and .exe files for BIOS update > >>> to /media/usbdisk (/dev/sdd1), but they do not show up after boothing > >>> from the usb drive. If I look at it in Linux, it shows them. So, what is > >>> the secret? > >>> > >>> Art > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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