Live USB-stick format - SOLVED

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 18:42, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> Mikkel, I'm away from home and from the laptop I used to do the
> >>> install, so I can't examine the history to find out.
> >>>
> >>> Mounting the drive in a running system shows all the expected
> >>> directories under /media/Z Mate 8GB/DaneElec, and as you will see in
> >>> my reply to Bill, fdisk shows
> >>>
> >>> /dev/sdc1   *           1        1023     8055071   83  Linux
> >>>
A Mandriva user suggested a command that would put syslinux onto the drive.  
It didn't work, nor did any reasonable variation that I could think of, so, 
having nothing to lose, I employed rule 99:  When in doubt, cheat.

I stuck a usb fedora stick and the mandriva stick in while running xandros, 
and copied syslinux from fedora to mandriva.  I didn't expect it to work but 
it did, and Mandriva is working perfectly happily now.

All that's left is to do a usb stick with windows, and I can handle pretty 
much anything from my EeePC :-)

Anne