On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:45:44 +0000, James Wilkinson <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > xbupt-fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I've asked the question a week ago, but have not got any input. > > > > Therefore, I ask again: How to copy the boodisk.img to a usbpen and make it bootable? > > > You have been replied to. > > See > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg03472.html > for the archive of your original post and links to responses. > > You will normally receive responses to your emails on the list and only > on the list, and you should expect to send them there too. > > In case you are unfamiliar with this protocol, I am sending you a copy > directly to your e-mail address. But this won't normally happen. > > James. > -- > E-mail address: james | When I was young I wanted to be a fireman, but I > @westexe.demon.co.uk | dropped that idea when they explained to me that > | firemen don't actually make fires. > | -- Konqi the dragon, KDE's mascot > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Ok, I found the article. It is from the December 20003 issue of LJ, entitled 'Floppies for the New Millenium' by Rick Moen. In it he mentions using an Easy Disk brand USB flash drive. Most of his examples went under his heading of 'mounting and managing the flash drive' which is not the same as making it bootable. Still it may be good related information for you.From what I can tell the outcomes vary widely depending on manufacturer, the box you are using it with, filesystem types, and other quirky issues such as some devices only mounting as read-only even when you tell it mount -o rw. If you put in 'remount' into that line it may fool it into mounting after all. You may have trouble getting it mounted unless you follow the syntax in /etc/fstab: none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 Then mount -a should get it mounted for you. Once you can mount it (author uses something like /mnt/fob) then you should be able to dd everything on there. I think someone else replied to your post with the dd syntax. Also there is the issue of it being seen by Linux as a vfat partition. Hopefully you could mount and format it to ext3 prior to all of this. THis particular pen drive in the example happened to mount as /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1 or whatever number. However he says that many other USB drives show up as ATAPI removable drives, basically like big floppy disks without any partitioning. After the directory is written to the drive successfully, then it _should_ boot,depending on your system's BIOS settings etc. If it doesn't boot on one system it may on another. Hopefully things have improved in the year since this article came out. Good luck. Let us know what specific problems you encounter from here on out. Marc -- * M E R R Y * xx xox oXoX oXXoXX oXXXoXXX XoXXXXoXXX XXoXXoXXXoX p d _x_ |__| _x_ |__| C H R I S T M A S
