[Ham-Computers] Booting from USB memory stick

[Dave 'Doc' Corio]

    Interesting material there, despite his statement that
> "For now, I'm not documenting how to do an initial pen-drive 
> installation manually, as I very strongly recommend that you create a 
> bootable CD to run Puppy for the first time."
    Amazingly enough, there was enough information there for me to 
deduce some of the steps. So far I have been able to:

    Make the Cruzer Micro stick into a "bootable" media
    Get my PC to actually RECOGNIZE the stick as a boot device

    Unfortunately, I get the very same error on the stick that I do from 
the CDs - "File 'Puppy' not found on boot media.

    I addressed this issue previously, and have still not discovered why 
CDs that I know to work will not boot on this machine. My original 
theory was that since my hard drives are SATA and not IDE, that might be 
causing a problem. This confirms that is not the case. The entire boot 
process from the memory stick works fine, and shows the proper device 
that it is booting from, but it fails to find a specific file. This is 
the case with almost every single Linux CD I have tried, with the 
exception of Ubuntu. That is the only one that boots from CD with this 
machine. The PC is a Gateway Core 2 Duo, with each CPU running at 2.0 
Ghz, and with 2G RAM.

    I'm beginning to think the Linux gods have taken disfavor on me, and 
I am condemned to Linux Hell for all eternity.

Tnx es 73
Dave
KB3MOW


kd4e wrote:
> Try here: http://puppylinux.com/
>
>>    How would I set up to boot from a memory stick? I have a Cruzer 
>> Micro 512M stick that I would like to try to set up to boot as a 
>> "Live CD" type for Linux. Went to the BIOS to set that into the boot 
>> order, but my BIOS doesn't have a slot for it. Thought if maybe I 
>> formatted the stick it might be recognized, but the format command 
>> won't allow me to create it as a bootable stick.
>>
>>    I'm probably missing something simple, but it seems to be beyond 
>> my limited knowledge!
>>
>> Thanks es 73
>> Dave
>> KB3MOW 
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