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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Hermang Mansilla wrote:

> Hi,
> I have made a small initrd that loads usb modules and
> mounts the usb drive then mounts the loop filesystem
> in subdir baslin.
> It is only 100kB

Many thanks, will try it soon.  We just put linux (BL3 ext2) on two 
computers with USB and will try to add your initrd to the loop version so 
please do post it.  (But one of them is leaving in 45 minutes).

> if ytour pc has WinXP and cant boot directly from usb
> then you can use syslinux to create a boot flopy
> copy a kernel and this initrd and it will boot very
> fast.
> I will post the initrd or send by email if someone is
> interested
> Bye!
> -HHMM
>
>
>
>
> --- sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> >
> > > > > and you can't add much to it.
> > > >
> > > > Then make a larger ramdisk.  Or make a one-floppy
> > boot
> > > > (with PCMCIA capability for CF) for a CF root
> > filesystem.
> > > Or burn a bootable BL3 CDrom.
> >
> > I have never burnt a data CD, just copied music or
> > data CDs (via .raw
> > file) but thanks for the idea.  We could put it on a
> > USB memory
> > stick and boot from David's 1-floppy USB BL.  Boot
> > would still be much
> > faster than Windows, but the 9 year old might lose
> > the floppy disk and
> > CD-ROM or USB memory stick.
> >
> > One of our laptops only reads OEM CDs.
> >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Steven
> > >
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