hayden78
January 12th, 2009, 06:50 AM
Hi.
I was wondering... could anyone point me in the direction of an idiots guide to insatlling Linux (any distro) on a usb? I have read a few of these guides, but they all assume I can do things I cannot.
Here is the problem:
I am having a hard time fdisking my usb. I was told , during fdisk, to make it fat16, so I did this. I also did that flag as bootable thing. Did everything I was told to do. Now I can't figure out how exactly to do everything else.
I have done the stuff, such as renaming isolinux folder to syslinux, and then changed isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg. When I did this before, it brought me to the splash screen (for fedora), now I can't even get that far. The usb won't even boot.
I can't use UNetbootin, the pc I wish to install to won't boot, the o.s. is all screwed up. thus no connection to net, to use UNetbootin. I also tried my ubuntu 'create usb start up disk', but whenever I attempt to direct it to an .iso, it tells me it is not a desktop iso? I know the iso is not a bad one, as shown by the fact I had gotten to the splash screen before.
Thank you for reading.
I was wondering... could anyone point me in the direction of an idiots guide to insatlling Linux (any distro) on a usb? I have read a few of these guides, but they all assume I can do things I cannot.
Here is the problem:
I am having a hard time fdisking my usb. I was told , during fdisk, to make it fat16, so I did this. I also did that flag as bootable thing. Did everything I was told to do. Now I can't figure out how exactly to do everything else.
I have done the stuff, such as renaming isolinux folder to syslinux, and then changed isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg. When I did this before, it brought me to the splash screen (for fedora), now I can't even get that far. The usb won't even boot.
I can't use UNetbootin, the pc I wish to install to won't boot, the o.s. is all screwed up. thus no connection to net, to use UNetbootin. I also tried my ubuntu 'create usb start up disk', but whenever I attempt to direct it to an .iso, it tells me it is not a desktop iso? I know the iso is not a bad one, as shown by the fact I had gotten to the splash screen before.
Thank you for reading.