USB booting :: USB-ZIP switch partitions?
I am wondering if it is possible to switch the partitions on an USB stick after an USB-ZIP install.
I got an USB stick of 512 Mb and the USB-ZIP install is only a few Mb's.
Is it possible to switch the partitions so that I (when I'm on a Windows XP machine) can see my /home/dsl/ directory and can put data on the stick?
And if it's possible, how do I do that?
It's like that cos USB-ZIP install works best on small partitions and if it's on the first partition (for booting).
But setting that aside, I have to admit I swapped mine for the very same reason as you, being able to see the big partition in windoze. This means you have to boot it using a floppy or loadlin from a dos (hd or floppy) disk.
You can use fdisk or sfdisk to re-create the partitions. But I use Ranish Partitioner (a dos program) instead.
Isn't it possible to edit isolinux and tell him he has to boot from sda2? Cause if that is possible you don't have to use a floppy disk to boot DSL.
I know it is easy to do with Grub and Lilo, but is it just also that easy with isolinux?
You can try editing syslinux.cfg for that. But there's no
guarantee usb-zip boot will like the big partition.
Let me know if it works, then I can abandon my efforts to get
freedos to boot usb. 
FYI,
You CAN get FreeDOS to boot USB.
At least I was able to do it with a pendrive and a USBHDD installation.
The Dell USB key boot utility will create a USBHDD drive with FreeDOS on it.
From there you can manually install DSL (poorman's install. Copy the files over from the livecd) and then use the loadlin program to launch DSL from the DOS prompt or the autoexec.bat file.
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