On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:44:22 -0700, lowrider wrote:

> I have been using knoppix frugal install because I have an old pII
> toughbook with no hard drive. it has a cdrom, floppy and 160mb ram. I
> used slax usb install script to write the cd image to the usb pendrive
> with no boot record. I want to use a floppy to boot slax and switch to
> usb load the kernel as I do with knoppix. The knoppix boot disk
> automatically searches for a kernel image on /dev/drive. Can I create
> a slax boot floppy to perform a similar task?
> Thanx
> I unsderstand that panasonic has some msdos usb driver, any tips on
> that would be welcome as well.
>
I tested slax when installed to a hard drive partition earlier this year.
I posted the results as part of another newsgroup thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp....ab4e99488378dd

I also tested booting Slackware (proper), when installed on a USB stick
and posted the method here:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.o...5fd1173b080c3a

and I corrected and expanded on a few things here:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.o...0ebe8bbc58ad3b

Your case is trickier than those cases because your hardware won't boot
directly. I don't know what your chances for success are, but you could
try loading slax's kernel and initrd from a boot floppy. On second
thought, you probably need a bigger environment so it will fit. Maybe,
you could use loadlin from a harddisk to load Slax's kernel and
initrd. Then, hope it will "find" its root filesystem. It might work.

BTW, I have some screenshots of the "live" DVD of Slackware, which shows
the nice working environment that I prefer:
http://www.xmission.com/~ddmayne2/cu...d/screenshots/

But Slax does a lot with a 200M. The above uses about 4G.

--
Douglas Mayne