Here's another take on the problem of getting Damn Small Linux onto a USB stick, from Pendrivelinux, with my comments. The original is
here, and it was written by "~The Pendrive Doctor~ ". Note that I've only commented the process itself, there's some more details in the original - I've taken the liberty of editing the text a bit.
- Download the HP USB tool and format your stick with the tool using the Fat or Fat32 option.
This is a useful tool as it will format any usb stick, even when the Windows Disk manager sometimes doesn't seem to want to do it. Remember though, that syslinux only supports FAT so avoid FAT32. I used another Linux system as a go-between.Or, the .iso, but then you need a tool to extract the contents from an iso (or burn it to a cd first), plus you need to rearrange the files that go onto the stick, as well as renaming the isolinux.cfg file into syslinux.cfg (see previous post).- Extract the files from dsl-embedded.zip to your USB stick.
If you use the .iso don't forget to rearrange the files as per my previous post.- Download and extract syslinux to a directory on your computer.
- Run the command prompt in windows (start/run/cmd) and CD to the syslinux directory.
- Once there simply type syslinux.exe F: (F: being the example drive letter of the USB stick in this system)
- Reboot your PC, go into your system BIOS and set your boot order to boot from any selectable USB device. (example USBZIP or USB_HDD)
- Save your BIOS settings. On the next reboot, you should have a sucessful launch of Damn Small Linux from USB. Enjoy!
I hope that helps someone :D
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