Talk:Linux.BSD.UNIX Open Learning and Hacking: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m (formatting) |
(USB booting) |
||
Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
from http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100404103735 | from http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100404103735 | ||
-------------------- | |||
RE: issue of booting USB w/o BIOS support, please see http://mirror.slitaz.org/floppies/ | |||
You'd need an HD floppy disk for this. | |||
-------------- quoting -------------- | |||
Floppy image set | |||
This floppy set will boot a Slitaz stable version. You can write floppies with SliTaz bootfloppybox, Windows rawrite or simply dd: | |||
# dd if=fd001.img of=/dev/fd0 | |||
If you have a CD-ROM, an USB port and an USB key or a network card, but you can't boot these devices directly, then try floppy-grub4dos [http://mirror.slitaz.org/boot/floppy-grub4dos] first. This 1.44Mb floppy provides tiny programs to boot these devices without BIOS support and some other tools. | |||
---------------------------------------- |
Revision as of 20:26, 29 January 2013
"the "erased state" for flash is when it is filled with all 1's."
tr '\000' '\377' < /dev/zero | dd bs=16384 of=/dev/rsd0c
from http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20100404103735
RE: issue of booting USB w/o BIOS support, please see http://mirror.slitaz.org/floppies/ You'd need an HD floppy disk for this.
quoting --------------
Floppy image set
This floppy set will boot a Slitaz stable version. You can write floppies with SliTaz bootfloppybox, Windows rawrite or simply dd:
- dd if=fd001.img of=/dev/fd0
If you have a CD-ROM, an USB port and an USB key or a network card, but you can't boot these devices directly, then try floppy-grub4dos [1] first. This 1.44Mb floppy provides tiny programs to boot these devices without BIOS support and some other tools.