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   Andreas Kohlbach to All   
   Booting R5 off USB-Stick   
   16 Aug 09 20:34:21   
   
   From: ank@spamfence.net   
      
   I did this twice before and succeeded. But then with a floppy.   
      
   I got the R5 thingy for Linux and put it into /beos   
      
   -rw-r--r-- 1    500 users    1474560 2000-06-06 15:14 floppy.img   
   -rw-r--r-- 1    500 users  524288000 2000-06-07 14:53 image.be   
   -rw-r--r-- 1    500 users       7406 2000-04-26 20:57 license   
   -rw-r--r-- 1    500 users        538 2000-03-27 14:55 readme   
      
   As I have no floppy drive anymore I dd'ed the floppy.img on an USB   
   stick. I am able to boot from it and it shows the typical BeOS   
   screen. But then fails to load BeOS itself and comes with a menu. I can   
   tell it to rescan for boot images and the stick as well as the hard disk   
   LED flash for a moment, but no luck booting.   
   --   
   Andreas       (PGP Key available on public key servers)   
   You know you're a Redneck when   
   35. You've used a toilet brush as a back scratcher.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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