[ltp] Boot from memory stick?
Bernard Tremblay
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:35:58 +0100 (CET)
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Hi,
I do boot with an USB stick on my T23 at work. I installed Damned Small Linux (DSL) on an 512MB USB stick. The distro needs less than 50MB on the stick. Very light and you'd be surprised of all the stuff they manage to put in that relatively small space. Take a look at their site : http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/. The following links were very usefull on how to set up things on the USB stick:
http://www.linux-usb.net/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=47
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Damn-Small-Linux-On-a-USB-Card
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=516369
http://www.chipnick.com/thumbdrive-linux/
The last link is for Feather Linux, but there is good explanations on how to make your USB stick bootable with syslinux. I tried Feather too, but the project is not very active and it use older stuff. I prefer DSL for now.
You have to set up the Boot order in the T23 BIOS to make the USB stick appears as the first hard drive. Turn off the computer, put the stick in and start it, after pressing F1 to go in the BIOS, go to the boot order menu, then you have to go on the '+hard disk' press enter to expand the item and set up your USB stick as the first drive (F5,F6 keys) and you're done. You can now boot on the stick.
There are many packages that you can add to the distro, you can save your config on the stick and reuse it. I even use it on my other IBM netvista desk machine with QEMU to run DSL in virtual under Windoze as the host machine.
I need to read the DSL/QEMU documentation, there is many many possibilities to configure the stick, the distro and the virtual machine... I like the idea of having all my tools that I can access from any machine with an USB stick.
Have fun,
BT
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:14:46 -0500, Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 1/30/07, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Can I boot a T23 or T43 into Linux or Windows XP from a USB memory stick?
> (I didn't see this option in the BIOS.)
You can if your bios supports booting from USB disks. I suspect the
T23 is too old but the T43 may work. Try plugging the card in at boot
time then hit F12 when the laptop boots and see if the USB disk shows
up as an option.
Alex
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Hi,<br><br>I do boot with an USB stick on my T23 at work. I installed Damned Small Linux (DSL) on an 512MB USB stick. The distro needs less than 50MB on the stick. Very light and you'd be surprised of all the stuff they manage to put in that relatively small space. Take a look at their site : http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/. The following links were very usefull on how to set up things on the USB stick:<br><br> http://www.linux-usb.net/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=47<br> http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Damn-Small-Linux-On-a-USB-Card<br> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=516369<br> http://www.chipnick.com/thumbdrive-linux/<br><br>The last link is for Feather Linux, but there is good explanations on how to make your USB stick bootable with syslinux. I tried Feather too, but the project is not very active and it use older stuff. I prefer DSL for
now.<br><br>You have to set up the Boot order in the T23 BIOS to make the USB stick appears as the first hard drive. Turn off the computer, put the stick in and start it, after pressing F1 to go in the BIOS, go to the boot order menu, then you have to go on the '+hard disk' press enter to expand the item and set up your USB stick as the first drive (F5,F6 keys) and you're done. You can now boot on the stick. <br><br>There are many packages that you can add to the distro, you can save your config on the stick and reuse it. I even use it on my other IBM netvista desk machine with QEMU to run DSL in virtual under Windoze as the host machine.<br><br>I need to read the DSL/QEMU documentation, there is many many possibilities to configure the stick, the distro and the virtual machine... I like the idea of having all my tools that I can access from any machine with an USB stick. <br><br>Have fun,<br><br>
BT<br><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:14:46 -0500, Alex Deucher <<a href="mailto:Alex%20Deucher%20%3calexdeucher@gmail.com%3e">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>=============================================================<br><tt>On 1/30/07, Timothy Murphy <<a href="mailto:tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie">tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie</a>> wrote:</tt><br> <tt><font color="#737373">> Can I boot a T23 or T43 into Linux or Windows XP from a USB memory stick?</font></tt><br> <tt><font color="#737373">> (I didn't see this option in the BIOS.)</font></tt><br> <br> <tt>You can if your bios supports booting from USB disks. I suspect the</tt><br> <tt>T23 is too old but the T43 may work. Try plugging the card in at boot</tt><br> <tt>time then hit F12 when the laptop boots and see if the USB disk shows</tt><br> <tt>up as an
option.</tt><br> <br> <tt>Alex</tt><br> <span style="font-family: monospace;">=============================================================</span><br> <p> 
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