Installing SAMity On USB Flash Drive

USB

Now we want to tell you about installing SAMity on USB flash drive.It is not actually installing SAMity on USB it is simply booting Live SAMity from USB flash drive and not from CD while there is no need in CD at all.

Restart your Computer, booting from SAMity (login as root i don't think if there is any sense for logging as root,anyway you are doing that in console as a root)
Insert a 1024MB or larger USB thumb drive
Open up a terminal and type fdisk -l (note which drive is your USB stick) type
```
guest@~# umount /dev/sdx1
```
replacing x with your flash drive letter type
```
guest@~# fdisk /dev/sdx
```
again replacing x with your device type
```
guest@~# p
```
to show the existing partition and
```
 guest@~# d
```
to delete it type
```
guest@~# p
```
again to show any remaining partitions (if partitions exist, repeat step 7) type
```
guest@~# n
```
to make a new partition type
```
guest@~# p
```
for primary partition type
```
guest@~# 1
```
to make this partition one hit enter to use the default first cylinder
hit enter again to use the default last cylender type
```
 guest@~# a
```
to make this partition active type
```
guest@~# 1
```
to select partition 1 type
```
guest@~# t
```
to change it’s file system type
```
guest@~# 6
```
to select the fat16 file system( for FAT32 type "b" ). Here i recommend if you use up to 2GB USB stick use FAT16,above 2GB use FAT32! type
```
guest@~# w
```
to write the new partition table type
```
guest@~# umount /dev/sdx1
```

(replacing x with your device) to unmount the partition type
```
guest@~# mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n usb /dev/sdx1
```
to format the first partition as fat (replace x with your flash drive)(if you use FAT32 type 32 instead of 16) Remove and reinsert your USB flash drive
Type
```
guest@~# mkdir /tmp/usb
guest@~# mount /dev/sdx1 /tmp/usb (replace x with your USB drive)
guest@~# mount /mnt/cdrom (or cdrom2 if you have more than one)
guest@~# cd /mnt/cdrom (or cdrom2)
guest@~# cp -rf livecd.sqfs isolinux/* /tmp/usb
guest@~# cd /tmp/usb
guest@~# mv isolinux.cfg syslinux.cfg
guest@~# cd
guest@~# umount /tmp/usb
```
(replacing x with your USB device,sometimes the command doesn't work,so use try syslinux /dev/sdx1 or enetr the windows,download the program Syslinux and xetract the files to dir C:syslinux ,open command prompt cmd and type:
```
   guest@~# syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1
   
```
```
   cd C:\syslinux\win32
   syslinux.exe -f E: 
   
```
(if E is the char of your usb drive ) shutdown (or just make reboot of the system)

You also can follow this description for an ext3-formatted USB-drive from the unity-forum http://forum.unity-linux.org/thread-841.html

Last Modified: 2010-08-06 19:58:51 by Yogibaer - [ Snip Changes ] [ Wiki History ]

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