HD Install :: USB memory sstick drive



You were right, the 256MB was last weeks ad..
This week, same brand and shape, but only 128MB, and $10 cheaper
I'd rather have had last weeks special..



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ke4nt
I found the cause of the user option problem.  I was using SYSLINUX 2.10 (hey, always use the latest, right?), which appears to have a problem.  After checking the DSL USB floppy, I backversioned SYSLINUX to 2.04 to match and Presto!  User options are passed in just fine.

Now I just need to figure out how to alter /proc/cmdline on the way through.
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I found the cause of the user option problem.  I was using SYSLINUX 2.10 (hey, always use the latest, right?), which appears to have a problem.  After checking the DSL USB floppy, I backversioned SYSLINUX to 2.04 to match and Presto!  User options are passed in just fine.

And another update:  SYSLINUX 2.10 has a known issue with passing options.  Moving to 2.11-pre3 took care of it.
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Now I just need to figure out how to alter /proc/cmdline on the way through.

Also, /proc/cmdline appears read-only, so I'll be thinking up another way to handle the basic idea, which is to have a USB key automagically determine its own backup/restore partition.
NICE tip... Thanks..

73
ke4nt
well i have an interesting problem...

I had no problem geting DSL to boot from my 64meg thumb drive..

the problem... no other usb devices are found.
such as my mouse etc. no mouse = X no load
other then that it has no problem detecting my
sound nic etc. the same thing happens on 4
different systems i have here.

i would say its the thumbdrive but puppy linux runs off the same drive drive just fine.

my guess is that it has to do with the way dsl's usb boot setup works .

so.. is anyone else having this problem ???
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