alan c wrote: > Ted wrote: > >> Eddie Armstrong wrote: >> >>> Ted wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Do I have to edit any files on the usb stick after I have installed Ubi >>>> to get the stick to boot ? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I would have thought just check the BIOS - enable boot from USB device >>> I'm sure someone will let us know if I'm wrong >>> Eddie >>> >>> >>> >> Thanks for the reply..I have the boot enabled in the bios and I can run >> both dsl and puppy from the stick but no matter how I try I cannot get >> any other Linux to boot from the stick... >> > > I found that with a stick initially formatted to fat16, it would not > work with ubuntu (facility in 8.10 that is) It went perfectly or > seemed to, but in the event, it would not boot. > > However, If I pre formatted the stick fat32, then went through the > process, it always worked. This was with two sticks, both failing and > then success, and with two machines, to eliminate machine type. > It may be that the smaller distros are more careful to work with fat16 > maybe? > Thanks for the reply. I have tried with the stick formatted ext2 ext3 fat32 etc but all fail.. I am currently d/loading yet another Ubi and then will try the manual method again moving all the files by hand....
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