USB booting :: Transisioning from windows - don't reject

Linux is fun DSL is even more so but anyway here are my prlblms:

Trying to run DSL on touch screen webpad:
266 mmx, 128 MB RAM, 64 CF, VGA 800x600x16, wireless ...

It does not boot if I make a USB boot of off the live cd, you know using the menu. It hangs right at the beginig after the penguin it says that ir cannot find some files.

But if I replace the minirt24.gz file on CF from the one of the live cd it boots all the way but the screen blanks out at after the Blue Done. I guess this has todo with resolution or similar.

Keep in mind I cannot use keyboar because this device has only USB and until drivers are loaded I cannot choose the F2 or F3 at the boot.

thnx

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