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Topic: USB boot, creation of a usb boot disk

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WCD

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Posted: July 07 2006,07:23

Hi, Im sure that you must get bored of the same old question however....
I have trawled the forums and cant find the information i need, i understand that to create a USB boot disk with DSL i have to format my USB disk in a certain manner then mount the linux iso onto the disk, that said i can only find information for mounting the information from a Linux OS i am using Windoze. Is their something obvios i am missing.

I have also tried the embedded.zips by they keep failing the cyclic redundancy checks on download.

i am using a Pretec CuFlash 256mb Diamond.
Thanks in advance
WhiteChapleDoctor.

WCD

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Posted: July 07 2006,11:59

well after some more reading i belive ive found the solution. on a different tangent does anyone know if there is software that burns iso images to USB's direct or is it a case of write it yourself.^_^

humpty

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Posted: July 07 2006,22:10

If your embedded zips are no good, what makes you think
the .iso is okay?

Why not burn a bootable CD ? it's far easier to boot from CD as a starting point. Then sort out your USB drive later.