luke67m
March 22nd, 2009, 08:21 PM
First the result : i am writing this from ubuntu 8.10 live 'installed' and booted from a usb superfloppy pen drive.
This has been a bit difficult bee the procedure included in ubuntu 8.10 try only to create HD like usb drive.
Initially i have tried to use the menu driven procedure but i discovered that my old notebook was not able to boot from my pen drive configured in this way as a hard-disk whit mbr and partitions.
Then i discovered that the bios of all the pc where i tried my pen drive recognized it as a floppy [superfloppy] and not as a hd.
So i start searching a way to install ubuntu live on my pen configuring it as a superfloppy. I found a lot of note that all said to create mbr and partition and activate and use grub, but this is not good for me. Then i remebered that SLAX could be easily installed on a usb key and so i tried it. Bingo. With SLAX , fat16, mkdosfs in superfloppy mode and syslinux with -s parameter i was able to boot from my 2giga usb pen drive [mp3 player] in written protected mode.
The second step was to copy all the content of and SD card where i installed ubuntu 8.10 with the menu driven procedure and to add a line in the slax.cfg copied from text.cfg of ubuntu.
I have written this for 2 reason :
First : Some pen drive are recognized by bios as superfloopy and not as hd and you must configure them as superfloppy and not as hd
Second : please ubuntu can you adapt your script to manage Superfloppy usb pendrive?
Then next step is to verify if -s parameter of syslinux is needed.
Then if there is an easier way to do the thing.
Bye.
This has been a bit difficult bee the procedure included in ubuntu 8.10 try only to create HD like usb drive.
Initially i have tried to use the menu driven procedure but i discovered that my old notebook was not able to boot from my pen drive configured in this way as a hard-disk whit mbr and partitions.
Then i discovered that the bios of all the pc where i tried my pen drive recognized it as a floppy [superfloppy] and not as a hd.
So i start searching a way to install ubuntu live on my pen configuring it as a superfloppy. I found a lot of note that all said to create mbr and partition and activate and use grub, but this is not good for me. Then i remebered that SLAX could be easily installed on a usb key and so i tried it. Bingo. With SLAX , fat16, mkdosfs in superfloppy mode and syslinux with -s parameter i was able to boot from my 2giga usb pen drive [mp3 player] in written protected mode.
The second step was to copy all the content of and SD card where i installed ubuntu 8.10 with the menu driven procedure and to add a line in the slax.cfg copied from text.cfg of ubuntu.
I have written this for 2 reason :
First : Some pen drive are recognized by bios as superfloopy and not as hd and you must configure them as superfloppy and not as hd
Second : please ubuntu can you adapt your script to manage Superfloppy usb pendrive?
Then next step is to verify if -s parameter of syslinux is needed.
Then if there is an easier way to do the thing.
Bye.