A nice way to get around the non-usb booting is to have either a floppy or CD/DVD that boots and your changes get saved to a usb stick/sd-card I know this is supported with puppy as I recall you could even get it to save the changes to a cd-r via multi session burning.

~Jon

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM, <staffslug@staffslug.org.uk> wrote:
Ok, quick answeres because my arm is very bloody sore.... I've pulled
a muscle and I feel like I'm carrying a lead weight about with me...

USB distro?  I'd love to guys and I have tried many and even went as
far as buying a usb stick specially for it.  Sadly my mobo is too old
to play that game.  I've tried loads and none will boot and I have
tried every tweak and configuration that is out there.  When I finally
get around to upgrading this old board then I may stand a chance :-)

I have run distro's on this PC using a different HD.  They work
perfectly os it ain't the NIC.  The installed version always workes
beautifully but the live version does not play.  I seem to remember
one of them working as a LAN the once but no exterior access.  DHCP
sounds likely..

Don't worry about it guys I shall try one of those old disks later and
let you know if it works with the new router.  I'm pretty confident it
will :-)

However, as I've said, I'm seriously thinking of putting a 2nd HD in
and running the PC as a dual boot.

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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire

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