Hi,
I'm trying to boot puppy Linux from a USB flash drive, 32Gb.
I downloaded the ISO from the official website (fossapup64-9.5.iso)
Got it running directly in a virtual machine (VMWare) with the ISO.
I used that to create a USB to boot on an older netbook.
I tried the following ways:
1) Using the puppy installer → No luck, I get main SFS file not found.
2) Formatting the drive to ext4, copying the files to the drive from the ISO only these 6:
- adrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs
- fdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs
- initrd.gz
- puppy_fossapup64_9.5.sfs
- vmlinuz
- zdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs
I then used grub4dos to be able to boot.
Same result.
3) Formatting the drive to an ext4 partition of only 4Gb (for some people this seamed to work) → Same result
4) Formatting to fat32 and using the same methods as 1 and 2 → Same result
I am running out of ideas here --'
I have to mention that there is a SSD with windows installed in the netbook. I would assume this does not matter.
But it's seams that puppy Linux only searches on the drive for the main SFS file.
It searches on the SDA drive but not on the SDB witch is the USB itself...
Any ideas of I can do here?
What I want is a USB with puppy Linux installed and booting on any pc, keeping the state when shutting down.
Kind regards