jibber Posted February 7, 2011 Report Share Posted February 7, 2011 Any of you out there? A little curious about a few things. While I've been using linux for a very long time (probably longer than windows) but I've always had it easy with using boot disks for distros. Lately, I used a USB flash drive on an old Vostro 1500 Dell laptop to load up Ubuntu. While I like Ubuntu and all, I've been meaning to try out other distros in my boredom. Debian 6.0 (just released today) was one of them I was willing to try. Unfortunately, I.. cannot.. figure out.. how to load a boot disk for USB correctly on linux. Create a syslinux.cfg configuration file, and add initrd.gz and vmlinuz, then csfdisk the drive, then put syslinux on it. Then write the configuration file to boot with something like:default vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.gz Unfortunately for me... I can't get it to work. I've added the ISO image to it afterward, just a direct copy over, but it won't boot like it should. Anyone have any ideas or know of any linux software, (preferably graphical interface with GNOME) that I can use to make this a lot less painful!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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