[CS-FSLUG] mini-ITX boot problem

[Ron Thompson]

Hi Jonathan,

    I've downloaded the latest Puppy Linux .iso.  I've been doing some 
searches on their site to see how I can transfer that to a USB drive rather 
than burn it to a CD so that I can do a USB drive installation.  But I'm 
getting irrelevant hits, like full installation to USB (no HD), and the like.  
Any pointers on how to make a CD installation .iso into a USB installation?

    Ron

On Thursday 02 April 2009 06:29, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
> Next thing I would try, is to boot Puppy Linux from CD.  This will tell
> fairly definitively whether that motherboard is standard enough for
> Linux, or whether it might be one of the proprietarized boards which
> often will crash anything, including the Windows installer.  Puppy 4.1.2
> is a 95M ISO, fairly quick and easy to download, burn, and boot from CD.
>
> If it boots Puppy from CD, I would jump to something with broader
> support for newest hardware, probably Sabayon based on recent
> experiences.  I have had all sorts of troubles with RedHat (which is
> CentOS) not supporting non-vanilla hardware without extensive tweaking
> (which frankly, I refuse to waste my time doing).
>
> But that motherboard might be a lot easier to run using a SATA CD-ROM.
> You could buy one and return it if it didn't help, if you can afford to
> do so.
>
> J.E.B.

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Ron Thompson, |^|
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