From RedPost/Kit/Documentation

Note: This procedure is known to work for the following flash drives used in the RedPost/Goshen devices:

2.0 GB

• Emtec 2.0GB C150
• Toshiba 2.0GB -- Fast access time
• Staples Relay USB Flash
• PNY 2GB Attache
• SanDisk 2GB Cruzer Micro

512 MB

• JetFlash V30 USB 2.0
• Staples Relay USB Flash
• PNY 512MB Attache
• SanDisk 512MB Cruzer Micro USB
• Verbatim 512MB -- Faster than average access time
• Lexar JDFirefly 512MB -- Very fast access time

DOES NOT WORK

Your mileage may vary. See the DSL wiki for a more detailed guide.

Many flash drives on the market come pre-formatted using FAT32. To make a drive bootable and work properly with DSL, it needs to be formatted using the FAT16 standard.

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• Insert the flash drive.
• Run fdisk. (Note: I will assume here that your flash drive is /dev/sda. Be sure to change it if it is something else, or else you might accidentally erase data from the wrong place.)

fdisk /dev/sda

• If there is not a valid FAT partition already, add one. First remove any existing partitions using d. Then add a new partition using n.
• Make sure the partition is marked as bootable. To make it bootable, enter a, then 1.
• Enter w to write the new partition table to the drive.
• If you just created a new partition, create a FAT filesystem on it using

mkdosfs /dev/sda1

• Mount the drive.

mount /dev/sda1 tmpdir/

• Copy the files from the image.

cp -a /path/to/image/* tmpdir/

(or -- if updating a previous created copy -- use rsync to only copy files that have changed)

rsync -a /path/to/image/ tmpdir/

Don't leave out the trailing slash. It tells rsync to copy the directory's contents, but not the directory itself.

• Unmount the flash drive.
• Run syslinux to install the bootloader. (Again, be sure to use the correct device for your flash drive.)

syslinux -s /dev/sda1