John
  
 
  
 
 
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Posted: Dec. 13 2008,00:29 | 
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USB booting could be very tricky.   I am not sure if it will work specifically with UDB-FDD, but I've found that the way that works with most bios is to have a very small bootable partition on the pen drive (<200MB).  You cold do this with cfdisk; cfdisk -z /dev/sda. I usually use the rest of the drive for storage.  So, there will be, for example sda1 and sda2, both set up with a dos partition in cfdisk.
  Here is a copy of the script I use after that: mkdosfs /dev/sda1 sleep 3 mkdosfs /dev/sda2 sleep 3 ms-sys -s /dev/sda sleep 3 #mount -t vfat  /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 #unzip dsl-X.XX-embedded.zip -d /mnt/sda2/ mount /dev/sda1 sleep 3 unzip dsl-4.4-embedded.zip -d /mnt/sda1/ sleep 3 syslinux  -s /dev/sda1
  While this setup has the drawback of having a second which isn't accesible via windows, I've found that it works on more computers than the standard DSL USB install.  Maybe give it a shot? 
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