marcus wrote: > Maybe a question for Kristian or Darrick -- How did you create the image > files for copying Astlinux to CF cards? > Did you use "dd"? > > What's great is that the boot sector works, which never worked for me > when I tried copying live Linuxes to USB sticks. Did you do anything > special to get the MBR into the image? > > I'd like to use the same technique to create larger images, so it would > be great of you could help me with the process you used. > > Thanks, > > Marcus > Kind of related to this.
I tried to write the zipped image to the flash built into an HP 5515 Thin client, using the example I found: gunzip -c AstLinux-0.4.8-i586.img.gz > /dev/hda1 I get several errors: gunzip: write: no space left on device gunzip: crc error gunzip: Error inflating The write is defective, the system won't boot or run properly, of course. The img file was written to a USB 1 Gig memory stick Well, I thought, perhaps that didn't get written correctly, so I used gunzip -t to the file with no complaints. The system: HP 5515 64 Meg Flash ( unfortunately this device, though unplugable, is a 44 pin socket on the device, a 44 pin connector on the MB, the reverse of a 2.5 inch hard drive, so there appears to be no way to remove and write on a larger machine. 128 Meg of memory 800 Mhz processor Booted the system from the DSL ( Damn Small Linux ) liveCD - boot to install, use cfdisk to create the partition, reboot the system again with the DSL live CD, execute the above steps with the resulting errors I can successfully install DSL and boot from the flash What gives?? I am a Linux movice, so be gentle and clear with details. Assume I know nothing about Linux, which is close to the truth. I have, by other means, been able to install AstLinux to a duplicate machine and am running it successfully, but I didn't take the best of notes, so am not sure I can recreate, not to mention it was a much longer process. Shouldn't this method work?? Do I need more memory for this to work? Any thoughts? John Novack -- Dog is my co-pilot ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
