Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

gamer103 · Joined: 03 Apr 2012 Posts: 2

Hi,I want to know if there's any LiveUSB making software for puppy linux. I DON'T want to make a liveusb of Puppy linux,I want to make a ubuntu liveUsb from Lucid Puppy.Unetbootin doesn't work as it doesn't display any of my usb drives.

Thanks Smile

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 07 Apr 2012, 08:21 Post subject:

Read here.

The original instructions are for using GRUB2. But I have now switched to using GRUB4DOS as described at the end of the post.

capicoso · Joined: 13 Jan 2012 Posts: 172 Location: Argentina

Unetbootin works fine on Puppy. Remember the devices must be mounted. Mount them with Pmount and then Unetbootin will see them.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 07 Apr 2012, 16:36 Post subject:

capicoso · Joined: 13 Jan 2012 Posts: 172 Location: Argentina

mashaffer · Joined: 11 Nov 2011 Posts: 2

Dredged up this post as I have a similar problem. I have a cruizer thumb drive that I want to make a macpup bootable so I downloaded the macpup iso as well as unetbootin and mtools. The thumb drive was originally formatted on a windows machine as fat32 but when unetbootin didn't see it I used gparted to repartition it again as fat32. Puppy (I am running wary 5.2) sees it fine and can mount it but unetbootin does not see it whether mounted or not.

Any further ideas?

mike

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 04 May 2012, 21:58 Post subject:

sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807

I think macpup has the universal installer which can install puppy on USB. The op was trying to install other Os s which would need a different tool

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3204 Location: Sydney Australia

" I have a cruizer thumb drive...

thumb drive was originally formatted on a windows machine as fat32 "

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Never trust Windows....my recent Sandisk experience.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77798

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" I used gparted to repartition it again as fat32. "

Did you set the Flags ..>>>LBA and...>> Boot ??????

Tried different ports.
Some computers won't boot from a front port.

Tried another computer.

Checked the bios boots the usb first.

Some do that....but with others you have to select
which hard drive to boot from first....

even though you use a usb.

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For multiboots I use Hirens.

If I had Wary and Macpup on the same usb,
my menu would look like this.

The folders would be lowercase....as

wary

macpup

title Wary (sdc1/wary)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /wary/initrd.gz
kernel /wary/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash psubdir=wary pfix=fsck
initrd /wary/initrd.gz

title Macpup (sdc1/macpup)
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /macpup/initrd.gz
kernel /macpup/vmlinuz pmedia=usbflash psubdir=macpup pfix=fsck
initrd /macpup/initrd.gz

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Chris.