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Booting puppy from USB drive- restarts halfway through?
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BungaDunga

Joined: 05 Jun 2005
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PostPosted: Sun 05 Jun 2005, 19:10    Post subject:  Booting puppy from USB drive- restarts halfway through?  
I've got a SanDisk MP3 player, and I'm trying to install Puppy on it (for the sheer novelty of having an OS on my MP3). I burned Puppy to a CD, then booted into it and ran the program to put Puppy onto a USB drive- this seemed to work fine. I then put a blank pupxusb file onto the player. I put boot2pup onto a floppy disk.

After this, I booted with my mp3 plugged and the floppy disk in the drive. Boot2Pup seemed to start, and started going through my various usb ports. It found my MP3 player, and recognized that it should try to boot from it. It said something about "copying to ramdisk" which is what I gather it is supposed to do.

However, very shortly after this, the screen loses signal quickly, then pops up the BIOS which proceeds to do the whole thing again!

Any ideas what is wrong?

Edit: Note that I have 1GB of RAM, I don't see how that could be the problem.
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BarryK
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PostPosted: Sun 05 Jun 2005, 20:44    Post subject:  
Are you using the official 1.0.2 release of Puppy or one of the variants?
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BungaDunga

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PostPosted: Sun 05 Jun 2005, 20:46    Post subject:  
The official one, as far as I can tell.
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Ian
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PostPosted: Mon 13 Jun 2005, 08:59    Post subject:  
Have you tried installing an earlier version of Puppy.
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