Boot Puppy Linux on Dell 1501

I could use some help. I just got a nice 8 GB flash drive (overkill) from Black Friday sales. I was going to use DSL, but decided to try Puppy instead. So far I like the default layout of Puppy better, but I can't get it to boot from my flash drive. Heres all the problems I have had.

I have never gotten anything to boot from a usb flash drive before (on anything), and this is my first attempt on this laptop. The BIOS does give the option. There are two that might work. USB storage and removable devices (SD card mabye?). Both have a higher priority then the hard drive.

When I boot, the CD version will work, so long as I specify no acpi. I have tried adding the nesscary lines to grub, but I know that I am doing that wrong. The relevant lines from menu.lst

title		Puppy Linux
root		(sdb1,0)
kernel		/media/disk/vmlinuz
initrd		/media/disk/initrd.gz

I am mainly interested in using an OS from RAM. I don't consider myself knowledgeable enough to try running Ubuntu from RAM. I've tried it once before and it didn't turn out well. I am using the flash drive because I would like to be able to move from computer to computer with it.

Thanks for looking folks!

I suggest you try unetbootin available at unetbootin.sourceforge.net

it's a pretty good tool that will set up everything for you, so unless you want to learn how to do it yourself or need a more advanced configuration, you should give it a try.

It even has some presets you can use including configuration of puppy linux and damn small linux, not sure its the latest versions of them, though. But you can use CD images and other options to create the bootable flash drive also, if you want.

its a good way to install ubuntu too, that's how ive been using it anyway ;)

unetbootin works when I used the flash drive on my roommates laptop. It will not boot from my laptop. I have tried adding the mbr stuff. I think that is supposed to add a floppy drive to the flash drive and use that to boot. The laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, thus the BIOS doesn't boot from one. Any other thoughts?

If it has a floppy try installing grub to a floppy and booting from it to the flash drive. If I recall correctly the option to do that is under setup in the menu.

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