One of the joys of a netbook is no optical drive. In an attempt to easily install pup4-417 on a USB stick (ok, so it's really a 4GB SD card in a USB reader - doesn't matter). In the past I have:
1. Formatted my USB stick with a bootable vfat partition, created a filesystem on it, mounted it, executed syslinux to install the bootloader, mounted the Puppy iso image, then copied all the files from the Puppy iso image to the USB stick
2. Formatted my USB stick with a bootable vfat partition, created a filesystem on it, mounted it, then used unetbootin to create a bootable USB stck from the Puppy iso
This time, however, it occurred to me that perhaps isohybrid http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.ph ... _DISK_MODE would allow me to create a bootable image that I could dd onto my USB stick.
Bottom line - it seems to have worked (at a cost of 890,880 bytes), and only required two steps:
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isohybrid pup4-417-k2.6.30.1.iso
dd pup4-417-k2.6.30.1.iso /dev/sdb