Jorn Eriksen wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Some more results from testing of USB Sticks. > > Looking at the physical properties on the USB sticks it seams we are in for > some fun. It seams to me that they all have different physical attributes. > I tested with some other ones as well including the brand new 256mb stick. > All had different metrics. > > I've just rolled a new image and uploaded this. To this image I've applied > the mbr.bin that came with syslinux v3.11 - maybe that works better. Now - > we are in for some more fun - have a look at this article: > http://syslinux.zytor.com/usbkey.php > > Natanael - maybe you have a Award bios?
I have no idea. Its Dell. > I've noticed that on certain of my > machines the stick (with the image applied) look completely messed up. > Howver - the image do boot with all the different stick I have, and on the > three different test machines I got at home. Very strange indeed. The usb stick got partitioned and mounted just fine. I just didnt want to boot. > All - maybe we should try to roll a USB-ZIP image as well? For that we can > use the Syslinux tool mentioned in the link above. I'd say: ship a .tar.gz (or .zip) file that the user an unpack on his/her usb drive and the run syslinux. You could even ship syslinux.exe for windows users. > I've tried with the "image" model that David described however presently I > have no luck with that. I've tried Erics image as well - no luck there > either. Eric - this is a full device image - right? > > We really should have some more folks testing the different images/models. > > Had a quick look on the DSL's pendrive_usbhdd.sh script. I'm quite sure we > shold be able to use this as well. The "package" can be found here: > ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/damnsmalllinux/archive/pendrive_usbhdd.tar.gz > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
