Ubuntu and featherlinux syslinux failure

Cybe R. Wizard cyber_wizard at mindspring.com
Sat Dec 17 12:05:36 UTC 2005


On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:27:26 +1300
Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 20:42 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > I'm trying to put featherlinux on my 1gig USB key.  I've DLed and
> > unzipped the zip to my key, loaded Ubuntu's syslinux 2.11-0.1ubuntu4
> > and run 
> > <sudo syslinux /dev/sda1>
> > which fails with:
> > 
> > sh: mcopy: command not found
> > syslinux: failed to create ldlinux.sys
> > 
> > Searching with Synaptic reveals no mcopy, I suppose it's supposed
> > to be
> > included in syslinux? 
> mcopy is in mtools, which appears in the "Recommends" section for
> syslunux:

Thanks, Tim.  I got mtools and it worked a treat.  Now to find if the
USB key is truly bootable...

Cybe R. Wizard
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