Bootable pendrive or SD card *without* using a CD

[tlchost]

My little MSI netbook only had Win7 installed.
I installed a Puppy4.12 iso to a 128mb sd card using
UNetbootin for Windows.
Very simple and easy.

I've always used http://www.linuxliveusb.com/. It also allow you to create not only a usb that boots into Linux, but also a virtual Puppy you can run under Windows.

Thom

[rjbrewer]

My little MSI netbook only had Win7 installed.
I installed a Puppy4.12 iso to a 128mb sd card using
UNetbootin for Windows.
Very simple and easy.

I've always used http://www.linuxliveusb.com/. It also allow you to create not only a usb that boots into Linux, but also a virtual Puppy you can run under Windows.

Thom

I already have Lucid 528 (full) on a partition.
OSX Snow Leopard is next.

[Burn_IT]

Isolinux, Syslinux, and I think another name are all the same Rose by a different name nowadays.
The script you mention is a special one that allows boot from USB that is recognised by the machine as something other than a flash drive.
For instance some machines (and even different drives) treat USB as a floppy drive, some as a hard drive, some as a Zip(superfloppy) drive and some even as a CD. That script is supposed to allow booting whatever it is.

[Dave_G]

Thanks Burn_IT.
I just found it strange that when one makes a Puppy bootable USB flash drive
using UnetBootin there is both isolinux.cfg and syslinux.cfg but only isolinux.bin and no syslinux.bin on the USB flash drive.

Contents of isolinux.cfg:

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default puppy
display boot.msg
prompt 1
timeout 50

F1 boot.msg
F2 help.msg

label puppy
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd

Contents of syslinux.cfg:

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default menu.c32
prompt 0
menu title UNetbootin
timeout 50

label unetbootindefault
menu label Default
kernel /ubnkern
append initrd=/ubninit pmedia=usbflash

label ubnentry0
menu label puppy
kernel /VMLINUZ
append initrd=/INITRD.GZ pmedia=usbflash

I'm guessing that the isolinux.cfg was left over from the original iso which was meant for a CD.

[Burn_IT]

It does look that way although it could be that it chooses which to use depending on what device it is going to boot from.

[Dave_G]

....although it could be that it chooses which to use depending on what device it is going to boot from.

Also makes a lot of sense.