Need help booting puppy from USB flash drive
Need help booting puppy from USB flash drive
I tried to boot puppy from a 128mb flash drive but it says somthing about formating a partitioning. I think i missed a step becuase all i did was extract the iso and then copy and paste it onto the flash drive
- Bancobusto
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Hi,
I loaded puppy linux into my usb pen drive sucessfully using the latest live-cd 1.0.4.
However, when I initially booted it up using floppy Wakepup 1.0, it came out the errors below. It simply prompted me the login prompt. Also PUP100 was not created.
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cp-FULL: cannot create regular file '/root/.mprc': Invalid argument
cp-FULL: cannot create directory '/root/.packages': Invalid argument
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mount: Mount none on /usr failed: Invalid argument.....
Can someone help?
Thanks,
Richard
I loaded puppy linux into my usb pen drive sucessfully using the latest live-cd 1.0.4.
However, when I initially booted it up using floppy Wakepup 1.0, it came out the errors below. It simply prompted me the login prompt. Also PUP100 was not created.
....
cp-FULL: cannot create regular file '/root/.mprc': Invalid argument
cp-FULL: cannot create directory '/root/.packages': Invalid argument
...
mount: Mount none on /usr failed: Invalid argument.....
Can someone help?
Thanks,
Richard
Heres what I did:
Disabled both IDE controllers in bios so windoz would "think" the usb drive was the primary drive and booted from a windoz boot floppy (freedos works also) and at the a:\ prompt I ran fdisk and created a vfat (fat16) partition and set the boot flag (set active partition) then had to reboot to be able to format (another windoz quirck). Once I had a bootable formated partition I enabled both IDE controllers and booted from the Live CD and installed Puppy to the USB drive.
Disabled both IDE controllers in bios so windoz would "think" the usb drive was the primary drive and booted from a windoz boot floppy (freedos works also) and at the a:\ prompt I ran fdisk and created a vfat (fat16) partition and set the boot flag (set active partition) then had to reboot to be able to format (another windoz quirck). Once I had a bootable formated partition I enabled both IDE controllers and booted from the Live CD and installed Puppy to the USB drive.
Hi danleff
My usb stick is 128m. I used Win98 fdisk and format to partition the stick as msdos - fat16?
From Livecd, I installed using usb option.
When I booted up from the stick, I could see usr_cram.fs and image.gz were loaded. The boot up looked good until the errors I mentioned earlier came out. I do not know if there were any more errors before the errors I found... because the screen scrolled so fast.
My usb stick is 128m. I used Win98 fdisk and format to partition the stick as msdos - fat16?
From Livecd, I installed using usb option.
When I booted up from the stick, I could see usr_cram.fs and image.gz were loaded. The boot up looked good until the errors I mentioned earlier came out. I do not know if there were any more errors before the errors I found... because the screen scrolled so fast.