USB booting :: Help needed please

Hi,

usb pendrive (you have to have USB-HDD or USB-ZIP boot options in your bios)
cf-cards (If your machine can boot from a pcmcia slot/from a cf-usb slot)
sd-cards (If your machine can boot from a sd-slot).

If you have a cd-rom but no burner/no burner programme, just download the iso on a pendrive or a card, find one of your friend or an internet coffee in order to burn the iso on a cd(rw is also possible) (in my area, you can have this service for very few money), then run the cd in your cd-rom in order to explore the install possibilities (5, I guess) that you have. One of my prefered install way is frugal with grub as bootloader, but DSL is nomadic, and it gives you the possibility to be used off of the disk like other classical live cd (knoppix f.ex.).

In order to test DSL, you also can run it from within a windows machine; in order to do this, download the appropriate DSL .zip file from the appropriate repository (look at the main DSL pages), unpack it somewhere on your hd, and run it by hitting the appropriate .bat file (look for more infos in the very well documented forum). It functions very well with winxp, it should with win 98 too, but I am just guessing regarding that last point (I don't have a win machine since years... ). Running DSL this way is slower because you emulate it via qemu; but it is good enough if you want to keep in touch with the system and try its functions, apps, extensions, etc.

I hope this can help you a bit further.

yours
z