Jeremy Visser wrote:
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 09:21 +1000, Kyle wrote:
You're asking to be able to surf like a pro without getting wet. There's
no one-size-fits-all method to do that.
Not at all.
What distro are you trying to put on? IIRC, UNetbootin supports Fedora
and openSUSE.
As I say, I haven't used UNetBootin because it apparently only supports
Debian based distros and I run a RedHat based distro. I'm trying to put
eeeBuntu on the Netbook.
How far did you get? Did you get a syslinux boot screen when you tried
to boot, or just some "Missing operating system" error?
I never even got that. It would just stop at a flashing underscore in
the top left corner. So obviously, I'm missing something of vital
importance.
Did you format the drive as FAT32 or ext2? If you formatted it as ext2,
you want to use extlinux, not syslinux (a gotcha when I first started
hacking on stuff like that).
I tried FAT32, ext2 and finally FAT. The syslinux thing hasn't worked
for me yet, despite the drive showing Idsyslinux.whatever. I've copied
the ISO, I've dd'ed the ISO across. I've dd'ed direct to the drive. And
when I do that and then check again in fdisk, it shows as an invalid
partition.
Did your drive have an MBR? It's all very well to set up syslinux and
flag the partition as bootable, but you still need the MBR.
The easiest way to do it on my setup is this:
# dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdX
This is new information. Will give this a go, thanks.
Oh, one other thing. Are you sure the system can actually boot from USB?
Have you tried a distro that you know to work (e.g. Ubuntu 8.10 or later
with its automatic USB formatter) from USB?
Yes, I know it can boot from a USB.
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Kind Regards
Kyle
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