Re: [Etherboot-developers] How to build USB key image for old etherboot 5.4.2

"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:55:48 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.etherboot.user,gmane.network.etherboot.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joyce Yu - System Software wrote:
> 
>> You don't need anything extra, though.  Just put syslinux on your USB
>> key, and build a .zlilo image.
>>  
>>
> Any size limitation of the USB flash drive? Where is the best place to
> get the syslinux, /usr/lib/syslinux in a Linux system or get it from
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux?
> 

/usr/[s]bin/syslinux should be the normal location.  Getting the newest
one from kernel.org is probably the best, since some distributions only
upgrade syslinux rarely.

Use a FAT filesystem (syslinux) or ext2/ext3 (extlinux).

	-hpa

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