[syslinux] Syslinux + USB + PE 2.0

[Matthew Holevinski]

That's basically what I'm telling everyone to do, with the extra step of just
partitioning their own usb sticks as they like and then copying my thumbdrives
contents to theirs and running the syslinux installer, so far so good.

Matt

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:35 AM,  <Peter.Leenders at computacenter.com> wrote:
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>> Now the trick is getting ghost to let me make an image of this
>> thumbdrive that actually works so I can redistribute this to my other
>> co-workers.
>> when I use the image boot switch, it copies off my 512meg fat32
>> partition but it's not getting the boot sector for some reason and if
>> i did a sector by sector
>> copy i'd end up with an 8 gig ghost image, and I don't want that.
>>
>> Matt
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> ...
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>> I've actually just distributed my vista bootsector file i made on my
>> usb stick the datatraveler 8gb
>> and had another fella install everything onto his sandisk 2gb, and it
>> worked just fine, so I don't think
>> my setup is thumbdrive specific. If so I haven't encountered one it
>> hasn't worked on yet.
>>
>> Matt
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> Hello Matt,
>
> as it seems to me you use a ghostimage of vista/vista pe  and try to
> make some bootable usb stick's with it. Since the bcd-file inside the
> image isn't changed you have to ensure that the mbr of your usb-sticks
> have the same (belonging) disc signature. Ghost (at least older
> versions) will not do this, they will create a new disc-signature for
> each disks (which was was know as proper style  - before vista).
>
> Theeasiest way for USB-stick with differnt sizes to do this is to make
> a copy of the original mbr without partition table and restore it later.
> Use bs=444 instead of 512 in commandline of dd for this, restore your
> ghost image to the stick and copy disk signature with dd onto the stick.
> You may need a full MBR-copy (512 yte size) of this new created MBR to
> boot this stick with syslinux.
>
> Peter
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