Quote from: floris497 on December 19, 2012, 01:09:38 pm

Is there a special extension you need for the usb drive? like ext*, MS-DOS or something else?

with a unix system, just copy it with dd on the drive, tripple-check your spelling, otherwise all your data will get destroyed.
the dd command formats it in the right format, I think ext2 in this case.

edit: sorry, this is just possible if the file has a .ext2 ending. othwerwise just format your stick with ext4 (or any other ext*) and copy all the data in the folder . in ther archive on the stick.

What must I write to tell linux to use a partition of my stick as swap? (it is formatted as swap)

ps: my usb power supply is finished (the circuit part). It works quite good, I just have to buy more powerful batteries (~500mAh). I can even connect my little USB HDD, one without external power supply, all power is given by the USB, in my case my circuit. I will publish pictures soon. The HDD eats up to 0.6A.


OMG: If I get a kernel panic beacuse it can't find my root fs on my stick, after a couple of minutes some text output about EHCI controllers is running over the screen until i hard reset my calc... I thought, a kernel panic would total crash the kernel and nothing will happen anymore?

Just tried my first attempts with USB booting, fails with kernel paic about no root fs... Any ideas?
-Stick properly formatted and data on it
-right files used (vogtinator's)
-Stick is recognized (as sda)

I did all this already...

Cable is plugged in while still in OS mode, then booting the kernel via ll2 script (the rootdelay is set to 10). I plug my stick in when message appears and then it recognizes my hub and the stick as sda.
After serveral seconds I get the kernel panic.

I can't even mount the stick when I boot the kernel with an initrd and then plug my stick in and type 'mount /dev/sda' or something like this.