Showing posts with label usb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usb. Show all posts
usb tethering
connect your phone via usb to your computer. your phone gets charged via your computer, while your computer gets the internet via your phone. win-win synergy!
debian net-install
(32bit) http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/
(64bit) http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/
substitute
(64bit) http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/
substitute
uk with {your country-code}, and testing with {stable/unstable}, as per your preference.
Poor man’s SSD
labels:
damnsmalllinux,
plop,
ssd,
tinycore,
usb
re: Poor man's SSD, K.Mandla's blog post, and my comments:
Inspiring article, Mr Mandla!
I have been using a 256M usb key, loaded with damnsmalllinux, for the best part of 4yrs now. I have a Citrix client on it for work purposes. I converted to TinyCoreLinux last year.
This USB would boot where ever I could, despite concerns voiced by fellow experts about the doom-and-gloom for continuous writes to flash devices. Till date, I haven't known any data issues.
Perhaps, I’m just lucky with this drive, but I've also had no data issues with any of my usb keys yet. And I have a dozen plus, used for different purposes. And btw, before you ask, mine is one of those cheap usb keys. I think it was the cheapest I could find at that time.
So, I have my PC on a key, which just needs some hardware to boot. How cheap can you get? I don’t care what I hardware I am working on, if it can boot usb. I travel around fairly frequently, and I find this very useful, along with your Plop Boot floppy. Thanks for that article too!
Inspiring article, Mr Mandla!
I have been using a 256M usb key, loaded with damnsmalllinux, for the best part of 4yrs now. I have a Citrix client on it for work purposes. I converted to TinyCoreLinux last year.
This USB would boot where ever I could, despite concerns voiced by fellow experts about the doom-and-gloom for continuous writes to flash devices. Till date, I haven't known any data issues.
Perhaps, I’m just lucky with this drive, but I've also had no data issues with any of my usb keys yet. And I have a dozen plus, used for different purposes. And btw, before you ask, mine is one of those cheap usb keys. I think it was the cheapest I could find at that time.
So, I have my PC on a key, which just needs some hardware to boot. How cheap can you get? I don’t care what I hardware I am working on, if it can boot usb. I travel around fairly frequently, and I find this very useful, along with your Plop Boot floppy. Thanks for that article too!
Bootable USB
I used mkdosfs to create a FAT16 filesystem. I want to use this stick anywhere.
Then I used dd to wipe the MBR.
I wanted to use grub on this stick. But, try as I might, I couldn't get it to boot on the PCs that I have.
Finally, I settled down with the restricted version of syslinux. Now, my usb stick seems to boot most PCs.
Voila! I have my entire desktop on a keyring, and can carry with me everywhere.
As long as the owner of any computer allows me, I stick this into a USB port, and boot to my own desktop. It looks the same, and acts the same, no matter where I am or what hardware I use, if it boots... And I have been able to boot most PCs, laptops, thin clients, etc. Plus, an added bonus is that nothing "on" that PC is disturbed!
Then I used dd to wipe the MBR.
I wanted to use grub on this stick. But, try as I might, I couldn't get it to boot on the PCs that I have.
Finally, I settled down with the restricted version of syslinux. Now, my usb stick seems to boot most PCs.
Voila! I have my entire desktop on a keyring, and can carry with me everywhere.
As long as the owner of any computer allows me, I stick this into a USB port, and boot to my own desktop. It looks the same, and acts the same, no matter where I am or what hardware I use, if it boots... And I have been able to boot most PCs, laptops, thin clients, etc. Plus, an added bonus is that nothing "on" that PC is disturbed!
Disk Geometry
labels:
usb
I used sfdisk. I hadn't known about this utility, even though it is available as standard on all distros. Now, I use this every time I get a new flash disk to alter disk geometry.
I recreated the CHS with 32 sectors. As I understand, having 32 sectors is most efficient.
As I want to use this stick everywhere, I only have a single fat16 partition.
PS: Don't do this to traditional disks :( I learnt this the hard way.
I recreated the CHS with 32 sectors. As I understand, having 32 sectors is most efficient.
As I want to use this stick everywhere, I only have a single fat16 partition.
PS: Don't do this to traditional disks :( I learnt this the hard way.
USB Flash
labels:
usb
I have an old 128m USB key, with which I started experimenting. My thinking was, if it died, I probably wouldn't loose much sleep. Thankfully, against all expert advice, this USB stick is still alive and healthy. I have never had any problems with this key. Over the past year and more, I have formatted, partitioned, MBRd, written and re-written to this disk without any failures. This probably leads me to wonder about the so-called experts' dubious advice... unless I have a one in a million flash!
