| 1 | Mini-Pentoo HowTo usbstick. |
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| 3 | To write this iso image to a usbstick is simple. Let's see: |
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| 5 | Create a bootable Linux partition on your USB pen drive. |
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| 6 | ie /dev/sdc1 with fdisk like the following sentence |
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| 7 | (Watch out, it will suppress all data...) |
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| 8 | fdisk /dev/sdc |
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| 9 | d (delete the partitions you might have) |
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| 10 | n (new) |
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| 11 | p (primary) |
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| 12 | 1 (number 1) |
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| 13 | Choose the size you want... |
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| 14 | a (bootable flag) |
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| 15 | 1 (number 1) |
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| 16 | Do it the size you want 1 GB is enough, the whole is better |
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| 17 | w (write) |
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| 18 | |
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| 19 | Format is Ext2 filesystem. Be sure to use the correct partition!!! |
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| 20 | mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdc1 |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | Put the file mbr.bin on the whole filesystem ie sdc without partition number: |
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| 23 | cat tools/usbboot/mbr.bin > /dev/sdc |
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| 24 | This file resides in the iso/cd in tools/usbboot/ and will put a MBR on the |
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| 25 | stick, allowing it to be bootable for the BIOS. |
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| 26 | |
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| 27 | Mount it on /mnt/stick: |
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| 28 | mkdir /mnt/stick |
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| 29 | mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/stick |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | Copy all files from the cdrom on /mnt/stick. |
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| 32 | rsync -av --progress /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/stick/ |
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| 33 | |
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| 34 | Then you have 2 choices, either use extlinux or grub. |
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| 35 | Grub is now the recommended default so try that first. |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | GRUB BOOT 2010.0 and onwards : |
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| 38 | --------- |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | Verify that you have all the needed grub stages on the stick |
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| 41 | ls /mnt/stick/boot/grub/ |
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| 42 | You need menu.lst that will correspond to the grub boot menu. |
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| 43 | It should be there already if you're using >=2010.0 |
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| 44 | copy all the grub stage to there: |
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| 45 | /* this will be fixed in 2011.0 */ |
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| 46 | mount /boot |
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| 47 | cp /boot/grub/stage* /mnt/stick/boot/grub/ |
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| 48 | Then install grub on the mbr |
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| 49 | grub |
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| 50 | grub> root (hd |
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| 51 | Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 |
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| 52 | /* Here you can guess with tab-completion what drive number is your stick */ |
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| 53 | /* You must point to the partition where grub is installed. in this case (hd2,0)/sdc1 */ |
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| 54 | grub> root (hd2,0) |
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| 55 | Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | grub> setup (hd2) |
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| 58 | Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes |
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| 59 | Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes |
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| 60 | Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes |
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| 61 | Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd2)"... 20 sectors are embedded. |
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| 62 | succeeded |
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| 63 | Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd2) (hd2)1+20 p (hd2,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded |
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| 64 | Done. |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | grub> |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | You're all set, reboot and enjoy |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | EXTLINUX BOOT 2009.0 and backwards: |
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| 71 | ------------- |
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| 72 | Go in /mnt/stick/isolinux/ |
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| 73 | Move isolinux.cfg to extlinux.conf |
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| 74 | You can eventually edit it to pass wanted arguments, like keymap=43 and remove dokeymap, xres=1024x768 or so |
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| 76 | Use extlinux to write the bootloader on the stick : |
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| 77 | extlinux -i /mnt/stick/isolinux/ |
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| 79 | If you don't have extlinux, use the static binary provided |
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| 80 | under tools/usbboot/extlinux |
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| 81 | |
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| 82 | You're done. Hope you'll enjoy it. |
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