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On 25/04/13 17:24, Neil Winchurst wrote:
I have been doing some more playing around. Today I bought a new memory stick, just 4 Gb. I already have 2 sticks but they are formatted to Ext4. From my research it seems that for booting from a stick it must be formatted to FAT32.Anyway, I already had an iso file downloaded so I used the program Startup Disk Creator to burn this to the memory stick. It all seemed to work and at the end I had the message that I could now use this to install the distro on a computer.I tried as instructed, put the stick in a USB port and then restarted. The USB was not found. I went into the BIOS and changed the boot order to 1. Removable disk, 2 DVD drive and 3. HD.Again the USB was not seen and I was back to my usual start screen. I have contacted the company who set up my computer and they tell me it should work. In fact they say that they always use a USB to install on the machines they set up.Strange. Oh well, it looks like I have lost out on that one. Should I perhaps try the Unetboot package instead?Neil
It's possible that it might just not work. Did you see the link I posted about the boot CD which enables booting from USB regardless of if the BIOS supports USB booting or not?
(I think it was this link: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16822/boot-from-a-usb-drive-even-if-your-bios-wont-let-you/)
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