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====How to boot from a USB flash memory drive without B.I.O.S. support====
~Some [[BIOS BIOSs]], especially older ones, don't support booting from a USB.
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~If your machine won't boot from USB, there are still options, boot from CD/DVD and run multisession, saving your puppy back to the CD each time, or boot from CD, and save to usb.
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~Or dfrugal puppy to a USB drive (4GB total, 3GB formatted to ext3, and 1GB swap) and remaster a cd with isolinux.cfg edited to include the ##pmedia=usbflash##

==Related Webpages==
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=514608#514608 Alternatives to USB Boot]]
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=517161#517161]]
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=517224#517224]]

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