somewhat off-topic - booting from USB drive

Wed Jun 7 10:38:28 UTC 2006

2006/6/7, gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen <gabpaul at melbpc.org.au>:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to diagnose a pair of mostly dead PCs - celeron 700 or there
> abouts.
>
> In particular I'm having trouble booting from CD - CDdrive rarely
> recognised. Will boot from HDD - sometimes.
>
> I was planning to boot from a USB drive - intending to boot either Ubuntu
> live or the UBCD toolkit - but just copying the CD contents doesn't seem
> to be enough... any hints welcome.
>
Take a look at this how-to install slax in a usb pendrive

http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/07/08/1522251.shtml?tid=2