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Posted: Dec. 01 2006,21:05 QUOTE
Hello. I have an Acer Aspire 1640 with a DaneElec 256MB USB Kay. Arithmomaniac932: I used the Syslinux/DSL combo to get my BIOS to boot thius far:

For realtek rtl8139(x)/8130/810x pci fast ethernet controller....
client mac addr: 88 16 36 14 E5 92 etc.
no boot filename recieved
pxe-mof exiting pxe rom
operating system not dound

On another computer, it skips step 2

What can I do?
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Posted: Dec. 01 2006,22:51 QUOTE
From the output posted looks like an attempt to do a PXE boot.
Are you sure your BIOS is not set to do a "network" boot?

USB boot needs to be higher up the list than network boot. However on some machines network boot is the failsafe and is attemped when all other boot devices fail.
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Posted: Dec. 03 2006,01:43 QUOTE
Quote (roberts @ Dec. 01 2006,17:51)
From the output posted looks like an attempt to do a PXE boot.
Are you sure your BIOS is not set to do a "network" boot?

USB boot needs to be higher up the list than network boot.

USB HDD hard drive boot is the highest thing on the list - I even put the floppy and CD boots below.
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Posted: Dec. 07 2006,04:54 QUOTE
I looked further into this and came up with the following conclusions:

I can't boot from the USB, network is a last resort

Yet I don't have a CD burner to make a USB boot disk

Also, I would rather keep my DSL installation as small as possible, so I want to avoid dsl-embedded if it will not zip itself back up

What can I do?
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Posted: Dec. 07 2006,06:30 QUOTE
You don't need a CD burner to make a floppy.
The boot floppies are available as a separate download.
Writing the image to an actual floppy is in the Wiki.
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