Thanks, I just figured out what I was doing wrong with the stick image. My stick was found at /dev/sda on my laptop. But TWICE I typed /dev/sda1 for my device.:-( DAHHHHH Sorry about spending everybody's cycles. I'm rolling now.
Thanks again, glenn KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: >Am Sonntag, 6. August 2006 06:10 schrieb Glenn A. Thompson: > > >>Hi, >> >>I re-downloaded the USB stick img. The size was the same. I also >>summed (after unzipping) both the new and old download an they are the >>same. I figured that I'd put the CD contents on a stick if I can. >>Are there any specific differences between CD and Stick that I should >>look at? >> >> > >Take care to change syslinux.cfg and leaf.cfg to point to the USB stick >instead of the cdrom/floppy. >And of course replace initrd.lrp with initrd_usb.lrp which provides the usb >modules at boot time (rename the latter to initrd.lrp on your stick). > >kp > > > >>Thanks, >>Glenn >> >>Eric Spakman wrote: >> >> >>>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. 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