This is just a link to bigpup's thread on the 'old forum'. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic ... 153#851153. Perhaps the most important post concerns the manual edit you'll have to make to the syslinux.cfg unetbootin writes to a USB-Stick, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 870#861870.
Per bigpup:
"However you can manually tweak the syslinux.cfg file on the USB flash drive.
Change:
Code:
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=cd
To:
Code:
append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash" Emphasis supplied.
p.s. AFAIK, while you are doing manual edits, any boot-argument you are familiar with which could be used on grub4dos's menu.lst's kernel line can also be used on syslinux.cfg's linux line.
Unetbootin to Install a Puppy from a Linux Distro
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Unetbootin from its Website requires mtools
This just a follow-up.
If unetbootin is available via your Distro's package manager it is probably simpler to use that version even if it may be slightly out of date: well, as long as that version support UEFI if you need that. But if Unetbootin is not available via your Distro's package manager, you can download a version from here: https://unetbootin.github.io/.
The Linux version downloads as a "bin" file. That actually seems to be "sort-of" an AppImage. To use it, set its permissions to executable. Then Left-Click it. Under Bionicpup64, the GUI appears along with a complaint that "mlabel can not be found... install mtools or your distribution's equivalent."
If unetbootin is available via your Distro's package manager it is probably simpler to use that version even if it may be slightly out of date: well, as long as that version support UEFI if you need that. But if Unetbootin is not available via your Distro's package manager, you can download a version from here: https://unetbootin.github.io/.
The Linux version downloads as a "bin" file. That actually seems to be "sort-of" an AppImage. To use it, set its permissions to executable. Then Left-Click it. Under Bionicpup64, the GUI appears along with a complaint that "mlabel can not be found... install mtools or your distribution's equivalent."