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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] running Basic Linux from a USB data stick or from a CD-ROM
  • Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 21:33:39 +0000 (UTC)

> If you really want to boot from a USB device, (which I don't
> think has been done with BL before) you should probably read
> some of the HOWTOs about booting off a USB drive, look at
> the other distributions which are capable of this, and perhaps
> build a special filesystem which can boot off a USB drive.
> I may have a look at it if it's not too difficult.
>
> David

The BL kernels don't support USB, but I got DOS to read files from a USB
camera by adding two .sys files which treat it as a USB mass storage
device (see a previous posting). Could one write a DOS boot disk
containing the regular BL kernel and those two files in config.sys, which
would load the files from the USB device into a large ramdisk? If you
have 32MB, that would leave 12MB to run in and 20MB for files in a
RAMdisk. You would need to modify the kernel to support 20MB RAMdisk.

Or you could run the 2-floppy version with the regular kernel.

David wrote me up a grub-based boot disk for doing something similar from
a parport zip drive, which turned out to be rather slow to load (1 min to
load a program, longer for X). This might work better with a large RAM
disk.





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