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Old 11-30-2003
Booting Linux from an USB stick

I got Puppy linux and installed it on a usb stick.
In the BIOS i selected to boot from USB-FDD but it goes to my HD and ignores the USB stick,

What going on ??
# 2  
Old 11-30-2003
did you make a boot partition on the usb device?

is the usb device bootable?
# 3  
Old 12-01-2003
got it.

Set the BIOS boot to USB-ZIP
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