MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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It seems it wants a CD-ROM or DVD but is it doable to boot a PC from a stick? If not, what other non-Ubuntu derived micro distro for a P2-driven laptop with 512MB RAM?
Thanks!
pentium 2? You sure it'll even boot off USB?
Puppy, via frugal install? Or Knoppix?
But what he said, why won't Slitaz work? Have you tried to make a bott disk in Windoze with Unetbootin? Seems to work when Linux won't...
Got a working floppy in the laptop if not optical drive? network install a go-go?
Don't have a working burner at the moment and I need this ThinkPad working tomorrow morning. Slitaz only gives info on disc-boot up.
BTW I've upgraded BIOS so it'll boot up from USB.
Old skool style with some slackware? Tis what I was running back on p2 hardware.
Yep, just managed to get the Puppy, time will tell 🙂
I have a variant of Slitaz with aircrack on an SD card, and from memory I started with an image designed for a usb drive. So don't look for slitaz for USB, look for aircrack slitaz for USB.
It's, er, very handy when on holiday with the netbook and no internet connection. Boot from the SD Card instead of the HD drive until you know what you need to know.
Edited for a link - [url= http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=slitaz ]see here.[/url]
Done just that, downloaded aircrack slitaz for USB, for the world I don't understand the next step. The unetbootin doesn't want to start. In Ubuntu it's enough to click the icon normally, not this time. What would you suggest?
Oh well, Lbuntu or Qbuntu will do for now, need to learn some more to get Slitaz going.
Sorry for not staying on line all night!
Can you be more specific? After you have selected the image and clicked okay is it that simply nothing happens then?
If you are creating the bootable USB on a gnome linux distribution - the only method I have experience of - try using gparted to format the USB to ext3, and adding a boot flag before using unetbootin. Just a guess.
If you are creating the bootable USB using a MS OS I'm sure you could try similar.
FWIW, Puppy is more user friendly than Slitaz in any case. Check out [url= http://distrowatch.com/ ]distrowatch for other lightweight linux flavours to try.[/url]
Another vote for Puppy here but for other distro's ON a usb stick this site is the place to start: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
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