No hard drive, low ram, boot usb drive from floppy: problem

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gjhicks
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No hard drive, low ram, boot usb drive from floppy: problem

#1 Post by gjhicks »

Hi,

New to this distro but have high hopes!

The problem I am facing has already been discussed in this forum http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic ... reference

But (maybe) my problem is for a different reason.

I am trying to make use of an old laptop, whose hard drive has cratered, by booting from a floppy and using a 512mb USB hard drive to 'host' puppy.

The floppy boot process seems to work fine. Tiny 'boots' puppy vmlinuz and loads image.gz (initial ramdisk?). All seems to go well until following a line that reads:

"USB storage requires async, device needs to sleep 25 seconds"

After this there are a whole series of error messages, many of which resemble:

cp-FULL: cannot create regular file ...
or
cp-FULL: cannot create directory ....

Then the process pauses with:

pausing for 60 seconds...........

After the pause is finished the following message appears:

exec: /root/.etc/rcd/rc.local0: No such file or directory

Then, a username and password is requested.

The poor old laptop has only 64mb of ram (seemed a lot at the time of purchase!)

I guess that the problem is that there is not enough ram to allow a large enough ramdisk to accommodate loading puppy.

Any suggestions to get around the problem of too little ram?

Regards,

Geoff.

Guest

#2 Post by Guest »

I have the exact problem but I recognize that this is not related to RAM size. I am using a IBM T22 with 256M RAM.

I can run the live CD and the USB key was built from the same live CD.

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USB storage

#3 Post by ezeze5000 »

I did a Google search and found this tidbit......

I hope it helps



http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ ... -rc1.patch :)

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IDE Flash Moudule 44pin is direct replacement for Laptop HD

#4 Post by wscarl »

IDE Flash module 44pin is direct replacement for Laptop HD
http://ec.transcendusa.com/product/prod ... indexnum=5

Guest

#5 Post by Guest »

Make the following changes to tiny.exe command line on the floppy:

PROOTFS=ext2 PFILE=cd

Then the pup100 will not be created on the USB key. Your error messages may relate to not enough USB file space for pup100.

Remove any files/folders on the USB key except:

image.gz, pupxusb, usr_cram.fs, vmlinux

I have exactly the same error messages before and the above changes work even on a 64MB USB key.

Let us know whether these changes work for you.

clifford

Same problem

#6 Post by clifford »

Same problem. I looked at the files on the usb stick and saw the spot directory with a readme in it. Thought that I could login as spot but that did not work.

I have Redhat 7.2 on part of my hard drive on my old Gateway (166 Mhz). I thought that maybe there was some interference with Puppy and RH7.2. I can't read all the error messages.

I will let you know if I learn anything.

Still_Aimless@yahoo.com

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#7 Post by Guest »

This tiny.exe command line works for a 64M USB key without creating pup100 on USB key.

tiny.exe C:\vmlinuz C:\image.gz root=/dev/ram0 PHOME=sda1 PFILE=cd PSLEEP=25

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