On Nov 12, 2007 9:43 PM, John Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > marcus wrote: > > Maybe a question for Kristian or Darrick -- How did you create the image > > files for copying Astlinux to CF cards? > > Did you use "dd"? > > > > What's great is that the boot sector works, which never worked for me > > when I tried copying live Linuxes to USB sticks. Did you do anything > > special to get the MBR into the image? > > > > I'd like to use the same technique to create larger images, so it would > > be great of you could help me with the process you used. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Marcus > > > Kind of related to this. > > I tried to write the zipped image to the flash built into an HP 5515 > Thin client, using the example I found: > gunzip -c AstLinux-0.4.8-i586.img.gz > /dev/hda1 > I get several errors: > gunzip: write: no space left on device > gunzip: crc error > gunzip: Error inflating > The write is defective, the system won't boot or run properly, of course.
Try device "/dev/hda". The images included the MBR, partition table, and first partition. You need to write it to the beginning of the disk (hda), not the beginning of the first partition (hda1). -- Kristian Kielhofner ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
