Re: [OT] Installing Damn Small Linux on a USB key

2006-06-11 Thread George Hein
After viewing instructions for DSL and RIP (RecoveryIsPossible) I installed RIP onto a USB-hardisk on a FAT partition. It took two or three attempts to do it. The RIP instructions may or may not be useful for you. Initially I tried to boot a full Debian and full Suse as well from there and

RE: [OT] Installing Damn Small Linux on a USB key

2006-06-10 Thread David Christensen
Kent West: > I think it may have something to do with the brand of USB key. Googling, here are some interesting links: http://www.usbflashdrive.org/usbfd_faq.html#bootable http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2004/10/utility_to_make_usb_ flash_driv.html http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/

Re: [OT] Installing Damn Small Linux on a USB key

2006-06-10 Thread Kent West
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: sorry for the OT, but I know there on this list there are smart people, and I hope I will get an aswere. I want to put DSL on my USB key, so I downloaded the iso image and i copied it to the USB with dd, but it doesn't seems to work [well it could be fault of my BIOS, unabl

[OT] Installing Damn Small Linux on a USB key

2006-06-10 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, sorry for the OT, but I know there on this list there are smart people, and I hope I will get an aswere. I want to put DSL on my USB key, so I downloaded the iso image and i copied it to the USB with dd, but it doesn't seems to work [well it could be fault of my BIOS, unable to boot from USB