Re: installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-05-13 17:11:51, schrieb Geert Stappers: > (CC-ing to mailinglist that is about syslinux and extlinux) > syslinux is for FAT file systems. > extlinux is for ext2 (and ext3) f.s., it is from the same author. Syslinux is from Peter Anvin which I know from DJGPP... long time ago! Since I ha

Re: installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-13 Thread Geert Stappers
(CC-ing to mailinglist that is about syslinux and extlinux) On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:24:33PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-05-09 15:22:29, schrieb martin f krafft: > > also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.07.1442 +0200]: > > > 2) mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sd

Re: installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-05-09 15:22:29, schrieb martin f krafft: > also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.07.1442 +0200]: > > 2) mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sda1 > > 3) syslinux /dev/sda1 > > 4) mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt > > does it need to be VFAT? I'd really r

Re: installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-09 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 03:22:29PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.07.1442 +0200]: > > 2) mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sda1 > > 3) syslinux /dev/sda1 > > 4) mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt > > does it need to be VF

Re: installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-09 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.07.1442 +0200]: > 2) mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sda1 > 3) syslinux /dev/sda1 > 4) mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt does it need to be VFAT? I'd really rather not use a crap filesystem... -- Please do not send co

Re: installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-05-03 19:38:18, schrieb Martin-Éric Racine: > Howdy! > 1) every time I write the ready-to-use boot.img.gz to /dev/sda1, the > 512Mb media ends up showing as a 128Mb media afterwards. Solution: 1) apt-get install syslinux 2) mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sda1 3)

Re: installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 1) every time I write the ready-to-use boot.img.gz to /dev/sda1, the > 512Mb media ends up showing as a 128Mb media afterwards. Well, it's a 128 MB FAT filesystem with syslinux installed as the boot loader, so that's not suprising. > 2) the device cannot seem to find t

Re: installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-03 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 18:38, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > 1) every time I write the ready-to-use boot.img.gz to /dev/sda1, the > 512Mb media ends up showing as a 128Mb media afterwards. That is correct as that image is targeted at 128 MB devices. Use the "manual method" instead if you want to u

installing from a Compact Flash IDE using the USB stick receipe

2006-05-03 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Howdy! I'm trying to install from a Compact Flash IDE card using the USB stick recipe found at http://www.debian.org/releases/3.1/i386/ch04s04.html.en with Etch images from http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ This installation will go into a device whose only mass storage media is a Com