On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:43:00 -0500, John Novack wrote: > > >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?
You probably should use physdiskwrite.exe to burn the img file to the flash media. I beleive that this has been the prefered method since way back in 0.28 when I first tried Astlinux. Physdiskwrite is an aspect of Manuel Kasper's m0n0wall firewall project. It's freely downloadable online. Michael -- Michael Graves mgraves<at>mstvp.com o713-861-4005 c713-201-1262 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype mjgraves fwd 54245 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
