[SATLUG] Linux on CD

[Borries Demeler]

> 
> OOPS, didn't realize this was a knoppix-specific thing with a  lot of
> non-portable utilities like mkdiskimage.
> 
> The thing should be to format it as vfat, copy the contents of the ISO to
> the partition, and copy the first 512 bytes of the iso to the raw device of
> the USB drive
> 
> mount -o loop foo.iso /mnt
> cp /mnt/* /media/usbdisk
> umount /media/usbdisk
> dd if=foo.iso of=/dev/sda1 bs=512 count=1

Mark,

I tried this approach with both puppylinux and with SLAX, to no avail.
The boot hangs...
It doesn't seem to make a difference if I mark the /dev/sda1 partition
as active or not.

here is some info:

fdisk /dev/sda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 506 MB, 506986496 bytes
16 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1014 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 976 * 512 = 499712 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1014      494801+   b  W95 FAT32

Anything obviously wrong with this?

Thanks, -Borries