SLAX on 2 GB flash drive

anamericanjoe · 08-10-2006, 07:08 AM

I need help trying to install SLAX to a 2 GB flash drive.

I tried following the instructions found here:

http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/07/08/1522251.shtml

However, when I run syslinux, I get errors that complain that clusters must be smaller than 16K. I'm not really sure what that means, but I think it has something to do with the partitions on my flash drive not being small enough.

Emerson · 08-20-2006, 09:37 PM

I'm not familiar with SLAX, thus cannot tell you what exactly to do. Obviously you need to reformat your drive with smaller cluster size. See this link:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.html

anamericanjoe · 12-07-2006, 12:06 AM

I finally ended up just downloading HP's utility to make a flash drive bootable, and borrowed a friend's Windows XP machine to use the program.

After that, SLAX was easy to install.