[Eug-lug] DSL&QEMU on Scan 2GB USB stick

[Ben Barrett]

Do you know, ahead of time, what machines you'll be booting by USB on?
I'm guessing that is the biggest hurdle, as a lot of older hardware will not
boot USB without
some fancy preboot tricks, or maybe not at all...

AFAIK you can put things like traceroute on DSL... and btw, have you tried
making a second, FAT partition on the USB stick?

sounds like fun Horst,

     Ben


On 12/27/06, horst <horsu at freeshell.org> wrote:
>
> I have been toying with DSL over the past couple days (Damn Small Linux,
> 'embedded' version 3.1, kernel 2.4.26), booted via syslinux 3.31,
> installed on a 2GB FAT32-formatted San curser.
>
> It's quiet impressive how much they fit into those 50 MB!
>
> >From what I have tested so far the same QEMU sandbox behaved stable when
> started from within Mandriva2006, Win2000, XP. Booting from the USB stick
> directly was not always successful, nor reproducible --that's still an
> ongoing research project, so I spare you the details.
>
> Back to the QEMU sandbox: although it's nice to carry your data around on
> a unix filesystem (and edit them wherever you go -- which I tested
> wherever I went), I found the sandbox limitations a bit frustrating so
> far: I was not able to mount any of the local file systems to the
> sandbox...  But, I want the power of a Knoppix Live-CD on a modifiable USB
> key !!!). Going over the network often led to stalled connections (with
> wget for their default upgrade procedure, and even over sftp when I put my
> own server in the middle); digging deeper into issues often doesn't work
> because of sandbox limitations, e.g. no traceroute allowed because 'raw
> socket' required.
>   OK, enough bitching... maybe I am on the wrong track and someone on this
> list has figured out a nice portable system, both USB-bootable and
> some-sort-of-EMU support?
>   Yes, I am aware that Mandriva is offering a Live system on USB:
>   http://www.mandriva.com/en/individuals/products/node_3482
> but thought it would but cool to build your own.
>
>   - Horst
>
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