Can't boot puppy from USB drive on laptop

[eyeshield]

I am trying to boot Puppy through a USB drive onto a laptop.

I extracted all the files from the ISO to the USB drive. Now I don't know what to do. The site instructions just confuse me more. The ISO file doesn't have any syslinux files that is mentioned in the instructions.

Also running WinXP.

[Ian]

The syslinux.zip file can be downloaded here:

http://www.goosee.com/puppy/download/syslinux.zip

[eyeshield]

okay now when i try to do the syslinux.com e:

it gives me a boot read sector read failed. :[

man.

[eyeshield]

man i've spent 3 hours trying to get this to work. :[

oh well. time to give up.

[eyeshield]

i have not given up yet. i finally got it booting but it can't find usr_cram.fs.

grrrr. i won't give up.

[carzy puppy]

hey ejes shield can you tell me how you solved the problem with booting.
I'm encountering a similiar problem - I guess. When I reboot I get "error loading operating system"

[blackbelt]

make sure you're using the latest syslinux... like 3.11 or something

[sam]

i have not given up yet. i finally got it booting but it can't find usr_cram.fs.

grrrr. i won't give up.

Hey eyeshield

I had the same problem; in my case puppy stated that there was no disc found which could be mounted, and whether I wanted to proceed anyway. If I just pressed ENTER, it said later that it could not find usr_cram.fs. But if you enter 'sda1' (to mount the USB stick) it worked.

hope this helps.

samuel.