(No luck) Installing Carolina Puppy Linux to usb

[Michael_Delabruere]

I'm running windows on my current pc but am decently familiar with linux (hence the forum account).
I recently attempted to install Carolina (a fork of Saluki) Puppy Linux on a freshly formatted fat32 drive using Unetbootin.
I had done the same procedure for Slacko and Lucid Puppy before so I was surprised to see my efforts fail this time.
When my laptop booted into the usb containing the Unetbootin created lina-1.2.iso, it first looked for the drivers, no problem, and then looking for the puppy files.............
and then proceeded to tell me that it had failed to locate the puppy_lina_1.2.sfs. Slightly panicked, I booted into windows, checked and there was the exact specified file in the root directory. I looked online and realized a live-cd would do the trick. I plopped in a fresh rewritable cd and asked windows to burn the disk... ejected. Try again... ejected. Darg.
Not to worry! I loaded a Virtual Machine, passing the Splash screen and then blue Windows crash screen; cursed? So I loaded another lucid puppy drive with the failed attempt still connected. Like in a tutorial here, created a fat32 partition along a smaller linux-swap partition. I flagged the fat as boot and dragged the contents of the lina-1.2.iso into the drive. I then used Grub4dos to make it bootable and rebooted away!
To not repeat myself, it had the same effect Unetbootin had. Sorry if this is a garbled plea, and more sorry if I am cursed and will wander, never finding lina1.2.sfs.

[Michael_Delabruere]

In all the time spent despairing over a usb, I did not have access to another computer. Though the desktop was dead (I was using my laptop), I created a live-cd and usb easily at another desktop. Sorry to flap like a fish. I hope I haven't wasted anybody's time.