UNETBOOTIN
John Heinen
hensandpat at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 4 23:45:07 UTC 2009
Scott wrote:
> John Heinen wrote:
>
>> I downloaded unetbootin and then the iso file on puppy Linux on a usb
>> flah drive, when I restart my gateway laptop with the usb, I get grub >
>> and waiting,,,,,,,,,,waiting. Appreciate suggestions/ John
>>
>>
> Personally, I have found Unetbootin, and USB installs in general, to be
> hit and miss. Sometimes it works perfectly like a charm, and other
> times I get the same problem as you.
>
> From what I have read it may be the combination of the USB drive you
> are using and the computer you are using. Some USB drives work with
> only certain computers and some USB drives don't work at all for booting
> from. So, try again with a different USB drive and see if that works.
> You can also try having Unetbootin download the ISO for you. I think
> sometimes that works better.
>
>
Thanks, you'r right, I did, though, download puppy with unetbootin. I
will try again with another version when I get to the library.
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