usb boot for newbie

Forum: USB booting
Topic: usb boot for newbie
started by: $lim

Posted by $lim on Jan. 05 2006,19:58

Can someone walk me through as to how to boot DSL from a 512 mb USB thumb drive to a windows XP machine. i have downloaded dsl-2.0-embedded.zip. and saved it to my usb. what do i do from here.

Posted by Avinux on Jan. 06 2006,10:59

I would think that you should just do these steps:

unzip folder (save the zipped folder just in case I am wrong)
put in thumb drive
open my computer
drag unzipped folder to icon of you thumb drive (I believe it's called "usb mass storage device")
(this part comes from my knowledge with a burning a cd so you may not need this part)
click your thumbdrive icon
click in the side bar "write these files to disk"
let wizard write it
(end of part with my knowledge of burning a cd)
your done

to open DSL in windows:
click icon of you usb drive open "dsl-embedded" file
click "dsl-windows" (it should say that the file is a "MS-DOS Batch File")
let kernal boot up
WELCOME TO LINUX

that's it