USB booting :: Whats happening to my frugal?

i,ve booted Dsl with the livecd on my "floppy-drive-less" main pc. no problems, now i want to make a usb booting stick, i have a mp3 player which is detected in dsl. i still want to use it for listening music so i made a 55mb linux partition and the other space is all fat32 to store mu music and play it, this seems to work fine.

now i want to use this usbstick to perform a HD install on my old laptop mentioned in another thread of mine. so itried to boot the livecd in my "normal" pc and when i got asked for the boot parameters i didnt see "press F3 for more options" or something like that. this only seems to come when i boot dsl by floppy :/ and i dont have a floppydrive in this pc.

so i tried to do a frugal install from inside X. as soon as i enter sda5 as target drive the windows just dissapears and nothing happens. the system does not hang or something, the window just dissapears. strange. BUT i am so nooberish in dsl that is dont even know for sure that frugal is the right thing to do in this case...

so how do i make this usb flash drive install thingy? because installing by cd doesnt really seem to work on my laptop since he has alot of trouble reading CDroms...

Kinda hard to figure out what you are asking. If you are entering sda5, then must be you have 5 scsi emulated drives or partitions plugged in to that computer? Normally, if it's an internal hard drive, then you have already partitioned it to take a bootable Linux installation. They don't even necessarily need to be formatted yet, because the install script will do that for you. The first internal ATA drive will show up as hda something, depending on the type of partitions you have on it. hda 1-4 are primary partitions or drives, and 5-99 are logical partitions or drives. If the terminal closes when you go to install, then it's because it can't do what you asked it to do. Frugal is a great way to install, but you still need to set up your target drive correctly.

There are instructions all over the web and some can be confusing. This one is pretty good, I think:

http://easylinuxguide.com/guides....ine.htm

original here.