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[Helmut Hullen]

Hallo, Eberhard,

Du meintest am 28.02.09:

> The bios is not able to boot from usb, but only from floppy. I want
> to boot an Ubuntu-installation from usb. The iso-file was moved with
> usb-creator to the usb-stick. I have got a boot-floppy, which starts
> an DamnSmallLinux usb-stick. But this bootfloppy doesn't start the
> Ubuntu-usb-stick.

Maybe the sticks are partitioned in different ways.

What tells (on another machine)

        fdisk -l /dev/<DSL-Stick>
        fdisk -l /dev/<Ubuntu-Stick>

If they are different, syslinux may not help.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut