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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
