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Hi, I'm trying to make a USB-ZIP bootable filesystem on my USBkey, which is 2GB. The problem is that "mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sda 0 64 32" fails due to the large size. The number of sectors is 4005888/(64*32) = 1956, which is more than the maximum 1024. Is there any way around this or is it just not possible to make this USBkey look like a Zip drive?...

...ly if needed. ESXi can do so, but I'm looking for an opensource solution. KVM would be best but I wonder if there is a way to create some sort of live environment where only KVM settings are written to the USB disk and not that much logging and so on. Has anyone an idea about some persistent USBkey setup or so ? Ideas are very welcome! Thanks, Matt

Hey folks! I'm doing some %pre work for the first time in a very long time, and have been at this all day so far and still don't have anything sorted out properly. First I tried just doing some simple bash stuff like this %pre #!/bin/bash # stuff I reduced "stuff" down to basically a simple "select" statement to echo and read input, just for the sake of debugging.

On 01/21/2014 11:13 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > My current theory is that vendors prefer to record > a cylinder aligned end CHS address over recording > an end CHS address which exploits the whole capacity. > This is used as an (inofficial ?) protocol to publish > the CHS factors H' and S'. > Indeed it is -- at least some BIOSes "deduce" the H/S to use

...I to avert the need to send windows users to the command line, which they > refuse to do. hence, back to my original question: > > I want the cwRsync_GUI_CLIENT to execute the equivalent of this command: > > rsync -rave "ssh -p 922" /cygdrive/e user at machine.domain.com:USBKey > > Can anyone tell me how to do so?? > I am afraid this is the wrong list. A post to the cwRsync user forum may elicit some response.. Selva > > Thanks > > > > Richard > > On 10/13/2015 05:42 PM, Selva Nair wrote: > >> 2015-10-13 17:14 GMT-04:00 Ric...

Hi there, I've read the instructions on using syslinux; in particular, I'm interested in booting off a USB stick. According to doc/usbkey.txt, USB-HDD is the best mode -- but there's no mention of how to get that working. I've tried googling it, but can't seem to find instructions (probably not searching for the right thing) Could someone here point me in the right direction so I could figure it out? Thanks! Regards,...

I dont know if this will be of any interest to you guys. I have a lexar 1GB flash drive. I used the mkdiskimage script and then did syslinux as described in the readme.usbkey. (the script took a REALLY long time too) I booted into 3.7 knoppix. Copied all the directories onto the key. Then copied the contents of the /boot dir into the root dir. I renamed isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg I had some problems because syslinux did not like the minirt24.gz file. I booted to...

Hello! I own an Ipod shuffle (512MB) and I am having trouble booting from it using syslinux 3.10pre8 (I have not tested older versions). I guess the Ipod shuffle works just like an ordinary USB key with a FAT32 partition so I have read http://syslinux.zytor.com/usbkey.php. My BIOS identifies it as a hard disk, so I hope I do not have to modify the geometry. Windows assigns the drive letter g: to it. Here is what I did: syslinux -sma g: (there is no error msg) But all I get after the reboot is: SYSLINUX 3.10 3.10-pre8 EBIOSLoad error - Boot error What should...

hi i use a script to backup my homedir, that work but there are somes things i don't really understand. here my script rsync -arv --delete --prune-empty-dirs --include-from=include.txt --exclude-from=exclude? /home/bob /media/usbkey include.txt file + .Skype/*** + .local/ + .local/share/ + .local/share/local-mail/*** + .mozilla/*** - .** exclude.txt file Desktop/ Download/ .* I have a lot of folder in my home: music, video, Document. I undersdand? that it script copy skype, local-mail and mozilla content. -.** means exclud...

I'm playing with syslinux 3.0x to get PC to boot from USB key... In particular, I'm giving a look at the "ZIP geometry hack" to get some more BIOS boot working with USB... Some question: - if we have a usbkey with a single partition, can we change the geometry without requiring to reformat the partition? Or is a reformat unavoidable? - at the moment we can use the "ZIP geometry hack" only under linux...with extlinux or mkdiskimage; will we be able to use it under windows also? More specifica...

I purchased the cwRsync for windows to help a client backup her USB key after using it. I want the cwRsync_GUI_CLIENT to execute the equivalent of this command: rsync -rave "ssh -p 922" /cygdrive/e user at machine.domain.com:USBKey Can anyone tell me how to do so?? Like most windows users, my client is terrified of the command prompt. Thanks Richard -- LinuxCabal Asociación Civil Ing. Richard Couture Novell CNE, ECNE, MCNE HP/Compaq ASE Tel.: (+52) (333) 145-2638 Cel.: (+52) (044) 333 377-7505 Web: http://www.LinuxCab...

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...al. If BIOS gets confused like fdisk, > > then the failure to find files is quite plausible. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Could you please exercise what is described for Linux in > > http://www.syslinux.org/doc/usbkey.txt > > and check whether > > mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sda 0 64 32 > > prepares a problematic stick for a normal installation of > > Clonezilla, which then boots ? > > > > I have to disagree., at least at this point. > I have to disagree with the disagree, a...

I was trying to setup dsl (damn small linux) to boot off a usb drive. I found my BIOS wasn't booting from it when using a USB-HDD mode so I found a page for using SYSLINUX to set it up in USB-ZIP mode (http://syslinux.zytor.com/usbkey.php). I made a mistake and (doing exactly what the page warned against not doing) used the mkdiskimage command on the wrong drive (a 230Gb NTFS external hard-drive). I typed 'sudo ./mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sdb 243 64 32' instead of typing /dev/sdc (for my 250mb usb drive) and now all my data o...

I've been using a USB flash drive for quite a while now, and in my previous system it worked great, but, I find with my new motherboard now that I have upgraded I can't boot it. So I decided to try the trick mentioned in the README.usbkey file where you make a ZIP drive like image on the flash drive and set the BIOS to boot a USB ZIP drive instead. Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. It never even says Booting USB-ZIP or something (when it's booting a CD-ROM, it says "Booting CDROM" while it loads.) Probably t...

...ual factors for heads and sectors which are hardly intentional. If BIOS gets confused like fdisk, then the failure to find files is quite plausible. ------------------------------------------------------------- Could you please exercise what is described for Linux in http://www.syslinux.org/doc/usbkey.txt and check whether mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sda 0 64 32 prepares a problematic stick for a normal installation of Clonezilla, which then boots ? This might involve the need to learn how to perform the advised mkdiskimage run on systems other than Linux. Such examples would be valuable for the wiki...

...I get the KNOPPIX Splash screen. KNOPPIX V3,3 F2 for Help boot: Loading vmlinuz...... Loading miniroot.gz....... Screen clears again There is a Penguin picture in the top left corner Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01 I have never been past this point. This is the ls -lR of my usbkey. All usb modules are in the miniroot.gz I have tried this with 2 USB keys a 1.1 and a 2.0, both exhibit the same problem on multiple systems, which all are Dell Computers. total 1576 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 05:29 KNOPPIX -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 54 Mar 11 0...

...but I'm looking for an opensource solution. > > KVM would be best but I wonder if there is a way to create some sort > of live environment where only KVM settings are written to the USB > disk and not that much logging and so on. > > Has anyone an idea about some persistent USBkey setup or so ? > > Ideas are very welcome! I don't think there's any out of the box solution for what you want, libvirt logs and runtime state is scattered in various /var directories and those paths aren't really configurable. You'd probably need to mess with bind mounts or...

Hi all Is there a procedure to use an 8GIG thumbdrive to copy the centos 5.2 dvd contents to the thumbdrive then run isolinux (or something like it) and be able to use the thumbdrive as the install media? Seems like it should work, however my machine only has syslinux not isolinux. yum provides isolinux does not return anything. Anyway I was trying to get to a point where I can just stick a

...ke fdisk, > > > then the failure to find files is quite plausible. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Could you please exercise what is described for Linux in > > > http://www.syslinux.org/doc/usbkey.txt > > > and check whether > > > mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sda 0 64 32 > > > prepares a problematic stick for a normal installation of > > > Clonezilla, which then boots ? > > > > > > > I have to disagree., at least at this point. > > >...