USB booting :: DSL crashes during USB boot

Hi. I have never used any flavour of Linux before and thought this the ideal way to start. I formatted (FAT) my 256mb "disk pro" downloaded the embedded version and ran syslinux on it. When i boot from the pen drive thewelcome screen appears i press enter, the welcome screen dissapears. Gradually the entire screen is filled with multi coloured text. When it gets to the bottom of the screen the last line says something about changing the resolution (two other lines appear but dissapear so quickly i can't read them), then the screen goes black and nothing happens at all. Any ideas ? Thanks.

You don't mention what hardware you have, but you could try the boot option vga=normal and see what happens.

Alternatively you could use the boot option dsl 2 and then run xsetup.sh once you get to the terminal screen

Sorry for not including the details

I have an Asus A8N5X motherboard, and an amd 4200 X2 (dual core). My pen drive is a disk pro. I will try your suggestions tonight. Is it more reliable to boot from a CD?

Thanks

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