Hi Glenn,

> Hi,
>
>
> I'm building a couple firewalls mainly for VPN use.
> *My* current Bering uClibc version is 2.2.x (I think) vintage.  SO I'm a
> little rusty:;-)
>
:-)

> I noitced that there is an image for creating USB stick based systems.
> When I tried the procedure from my SUSE 9.0 system it didn't work for
> me.  DD completed fine but the target system reported a corrupt boot
> sector.  So I created a bootable USB stick using an older procedure using
> a HP formating utility and some DOS system files I had saved under my old
> leaf directories.  Sure enough the system booted fine to DOS from the
> stick.  So I tried the new DD image again and this time I received a
> message saying there was no operating system files.

There is some background information about USB booting available at the
following link: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/bk02ch12.html

> I seem to remember
> using syslinux to do all this before.  I also, seem to remember copying
> files from a CD to the stick.  Can this method still be used?  If so, are
> there still directions, lying about, on how to do it?

This method can still be used, I don't have the directions right now.

> Also,  there are so
> many options for DD.  Is it possible that I just need to add some
> additional options to the DD command?  Like a block size for example. The
> write took quite some time to complete but DD reported no errors. Is there
> a checksum I can use to chck my download?
>
There is no checksum, but you can check the exact filesize of the
downloaded compressed image. It should be 23492093 bytes.

> The stick I'm using is Memorex 128 USB2.0 stick.  Like I said, it did
> boot to dos for me so I know the BIOS is configured correctly.
>
> Thanks,
> Glenn Thompson
>

Eric

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