Boot from floppy + USB

[quellen]

Hello folks,
I want to install "Core Plus" on my old notebook (2001), but his CD reader is broken :-(

Can I install "Core Plus" with a bootable floppy disk + Pendrive USB (or floppy + hard disk)?

Something like that:

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http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/boot_floppies.html(In the same notebook I have installed DSL)

I tried with PDLFLOPPY, but doesn't work good: Core Plus starts in text mode, without XWindow.

Thanks.

[Misalf]

While you have DSL already installed, you could use it to install CorePlus manually.

Do you have an  /tce/optional  directory?

What is the content of your bootloaders config file?

[quellen]

While you have DSL already installed, you could use it to install CorePlus manually.

Do you have an  /tce/optional  directory?

no

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$ ls -A
.bash_profile
.rr_moved
bin
boot
cdrom
dev
etc
floppy
home
lib
lost+found
mnt
none
opt
proc
root
sbin
tmp
usr
var


What is the content of your bootloaders config file?

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$cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# This sets the default entry to boot.
# Remember that GRUB counts from 0, so 1 is the second entry.

default 0

# This sets the length of time in seconds that grub will wait for the user to select an OS
# before it boots the default on. I reccommend at least 15 seconds.

timeout 15

# Enter the entry for DSL here. Something like this.

title DSL
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

title DSL fb800x600
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=788 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

title DSL fb1024x768
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=791 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

title DSL fb1280x1024
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=794 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

#title DSL with toram, mydsl, restore, hostname, and passwords
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda5 restore=hda5 host=DSL1 secure

#title DSL with XFree86
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda5/xfree restore=hda6 host=DSL1 secure

#title DSL with mydsl, restore, persistentancy, hostname, and passwords
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda3 restore=hda3 home=hda3 opt=hda3 host=DSL1 secure

#title DSL Runlevel 2
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nodma frugal 2 base norestore

#title DSL Check filesystem(s)
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nodma frugal 2 toram legacy base norestore checkfs

#title Windows
#root (hd0,0)
#chainloader +1
#makeactive
#boot



[curaga]

Please note that if your grub was installed by DSL, it is too old to boot modern linux kernels. You will need to upgrade your grub first.

[quellen]

How Can I upgrade grub from DSL?

[Misalf]

I tried with PDLFLOPPY, but doesn't work good: Core Plus starts in text mode, without XWindow.

Maybe it helps to add the  waitusb=5  bootcode to your boot floppy's bootloader.

If you're lucky, PLOP Boot Manager will be able to boot from USB if your BIOS is not natively able to.

[quellen]

i've just tried PLOP, but it doesn't work.

Can I install CorePlus in text mode?

[coreplayer2]

Plop works good but maybe dependent on the old PC

[Misalf]

Too bad. Plop doesn't work on all systems (old laptops).

Can I install CorePlus in text mode?

Manually, yes. But I think something is wrong with your USB installation.
How did you get Core on USB pendrive in the first place?

Do you have an  /tce/optional  directory?

... on your USB pendrive?

What is the content of your bootloaders config file?

... on your boot floppy?


I'd suggest to install manually from DSL. Then edit your boot loader accordingly.
Just mount the CorePlus.iso and create/copy files to your HDD using this layout:

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.
|
`---+/tce/
    |-- onboot.lst
    |---+/boot/
    |   |-- vmlinuz
    |   `-- core.gz
    `---+/optional/
        `-- *.tcz


[volkerp]

I tried with PDLFLOPPY, but doesn't work good: Core Plus starts in text mode, without XWindow.

Can I install CorePlus in text mode?

?

Did you correctly dd a CorePlus ISO image to a USB pendrive?
If yes, did you try to boot from it?
If yes, what happened than?

[quellen]

SOLVED!
i tried with another penderive and now FLOP works good. ;-)

but works only with X/GUI.
with other windows doesn't work, it doesn't load desktop screen:


maybe my computer is not powerful enough?
CPU: Pentium 3 1GHz
RAM: 120MB
HDD: 10GB

[quellen]

How Can I do the full installation? I see only the frugal installation.

[coreplayer2]

The X on the blank screen usually means a window manager is missing, so add one

tce-ab comes in really handy for this.
 boot to a prompt or simply exit X (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and type tce-ab   Then search for flwm_topside for example and follow the prompts to install it onboot
Then sudo reboot

Frugal install is the most  desired and standard install for TC


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[tinypoodle]

I couldn't see any reason to reboot, but rather just 'startx' after loading a wm.

[coreplayer2]

Hi tiny poodle,   I didn't explain  how to exit X, so figured it easier to reboot.  Would have been more desirable to use CTR + Alt + Backspace but  I think there is a recent I discussion on that issue