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Need help booting puppy from USB flash drive
Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 01:35
by ineedhelp
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
Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 01:37
by inneedofsomehelp
I read somwhere that i need to create a file called usb somthing but i cant find that info again. I am running low on time and patient so i need some help
Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 05:09
by Flash
Hold your horses there, pardner. Have you looked
here yet?
Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2005, 05:22
by Bancobusto
Hey, great work Flash!
Posted: Thu 04 Aug 2005, 06:45
by langecom
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.
....
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
Posted: Thu 04 Aug 2005, 21:22
by danleff
langecom, what size usb stick is this and what filesystem is on the stick? fat32 or fat16?
Which install option did you use, the usb option?
Posted: Thu 04 Aug 2005, 22:28
by nameless foo
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.
Posted: Fri 05 Aug 2005, 01:01
by langecom
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.