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How do I boot USB via boot floppy?
secdroid:
--- Quote from: tobiaus on January 04, 2009, 01:37:51 AM ---it seems like a long time, with some projects a few months of waiting is a lot better than a few days or weeks of frustration.
and this is useless to you but someone said loadlin and linld are both .com files. that may be true, although i just read yesterday one is an .exe and the other is a .com. close enough?
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I'm not frustrated. I gave it a good try and I see that others have similar problems, so I think that I've probably done all I can with this method. It's not like I am giving TC good, modern hardware to work with. ;)
I was the guilty party saying both were .com. The linld is a .com (and appears abandoned), while loadlin is a .exe.
It turns out that a friend has a junkbox full of laptop hard drives, so my next attempt will be to use DSL via floppy/flash boot to install TC on an HDD. I think that should work out fine.
I was reading the excellent tuxmachines blog this morning and came across this ingenious method of resurrecting dead laptops (DSL, but applicable to TC) -- http://jadi.net/2009/01/giving-life-back-to-an-old-laptop/
curaga:
As far as I know grub2 is the only bootloader that even plans to have usb support.
You could try other dos usb drivers? Or, can the laptop netboot?
bigpcman:
This is a topic I spent alot of time on over in puppy land. See my post there:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=224734#224734
The big ugly problem turned out to be booting from a usb floppy using the integrated usb port. You can read all about the solution in my post. The rest of the thread is informative as well.
The bottom line is that I eventually was able to boot puppy linux 2.26 from a usb floppy combined with a usb stick.
The one remaining goal I have had is to be able to boot from the combination of a floppy and usb cardbus with a usb stick in it. I have come close but still have not found the right driver combo.
bigpcman:
I've used the wakepup2 floppy boot image successfully. It contains quite a large number of drivers that cover a broad array of hardware. Could someone please fill me in on what the correct syntax is for the linld command, what changes to isolinux.cfg are required if any and what files must be on the sda1? For puppy it looks like this:
LINLD.COM image=%drv%vmlinuz initrd=%drv%initrd.gz cl=@linld\puppy.lin
I want it to load tc from a usb stick on sda1.
Here's a link to the wakepup2 download file: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=11757
Here's a link to the panasonic dos usb support files: http://panasonic.co.jp/pcc/products/drive/cdrrw/kxlrw40an/download.html
Look in the F2H subdirectory for the drivers including ramfd.sys. The panasonic web page spells out the usage rights. However this is very old software so perhaps the rights have changed by now.
^thehatsrule^:
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--- Quote from: bigpcman on January 09, 2009, 08:52:40 PM ---The panasonic web page spells out the usage rights. However this is very old software so perhaps the rights have changed by now.
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The license is still there - that is not something one can assume, so the user is still bound by it.
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