Hello Everyone, I gave it a go, and here's my "report":
>> -Fdisk the stick and set the bootable flag All three sticks had the flag set allready - thus did not need do this. >> -Format it No need - was allready formated - went along with what was allready on the sticks. >> -Installed syslinux on it Syslinux -s /dev/sda1 worked well on all three sticks >> -copy the packages to the stick (replace initrd.lrp with initrd_usb.lrp >> and rename it to initrd.lrp) >> -Change leaf.cfg and syslinux.cfg to use the correct boot device Used the ISO image as a base - just changed the syslinux.cfg file to point to the USB initrd (instead of renaming it). Tested on the ASUS S-Express (BareBones) machine that has USB boot enabled. All three sticks worked well :-) Then I created an image of the most expensive one (Kingston) dd if=/dev/sda of=stick.img after that I took the cheapest one - plugged in and did a: dd of=/dev/sda if=stick.img It took 40 sec "burn" it Then I pluged in into the ASUS box again. And it worked like a charm I have Gzip'ed the image and it now take around 20Mb. Is there a place where I can upload it so that more people can test? Best regards Jørn -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jorn Eriksen Sent: 21. mars 2006 23:38 To: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [leaf-devel] Re: floppy vs flash drive Hey Eric & all, >>The effort would even be less, what is needed is a script/program that >>creates an image which can be "copied" to any memory stick. I even have a >>memory stick with Bering-uClibc installed, but I created it by hand: >>-Fdisk the stick and set the bootable flag >>-Format it >>-Installed syslinux on it >>-copy the packages to the stick (replace initrd.lrp with initrd_usb.lrp >>and rename it to initrd.lrp) >>-Change leaf.cfg and syslinux.cfg to use the correct boot device That sounded allmost to easy :-) I've ordered three different USB sticks (one from TwinMOS, one from Kingston and one from Corsair) from my HW store and I'll give it a go. If it's as easy as this I'll create an image using DD that we can put wherever. I just would need someone to tell me when there's a release out that need an USB-sitck image. This is going to be fun as I have not, on purpose, investigated whether these sticks are USB-HDD or USB-FDD... The will take the sticks a few days to reach me (its almost midnight here now) however as soon as I get it tested I let the list know how it worked out. Anyhowe I guess we should update: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buci-ide.html with the information above - similar to the 14.5 section. Best regards Jørn -----Original Message----- From: Eric Spakman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21. mars 2006 22:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [leaf-devel] Re: floppy vs flash drive Hello Jorn, >>> So, to me the question is more along the lines of "is there somebody >>> who is willing to work on making booting off something other than >>> floppy and DRom easier?" So far, the answer to that has been "no" (and >>> there's only so much 5 or so people can do in their spare time). > What would the effort be? I mean - would it just be to replace one LPR > with another and create a ISO of that whenever a new release is due? And > maybe test-burn it to a memory stick and then give it a go on a few > machines? Or are we talking about, as I suspect it do mean, create a lot > of scripts that will do the task, and make the ISO work an all kinds of > HW? Or could we > make the task a bit smaller in the beginning? > The effort would even be less, what is needed is a script/program that creates an image which can be "copied" to any memory stick. I even have a memory stick with Bering-uClibc installed, but I created it by hand: -Fdisk the stick and set the bootable flag -Format it -Installed syslinux on it -copy the packages to the stick (replace initrd.lrp with initrd_usb.lrp and rename it to initrd.lrp) -Change leaf.cfg and syslinux.cfg to use the correct boot device So there is no need to maintain an image, just an extra target (next to CD-ROM and Floppy) is needed. Eric ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. 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