First, download the latest version of Feather Linux USB edition. You should now have a file called feather-0.x.x-usb.zip, where 0.x.x is the current version. Unzip that file to your USB drive – you can do this in Linux using the unzip command, or using Winzip in Windows.

Then run syslinux, which will install the bootloader needed for Feather Linux to be able to boot from the USB drive. Syslinux can be downloaded from kernel.org, and you can find out more about it at http://syslinux.zytor.com. Make sure to use syslinux 2.11, as later versions do not function properly in the way Feather requires. Under Linux, you would type:
syslinux /dev/sda1
if your USB drive is usually found at /dev/sda1, and in Windows type:
syslinux.exe E:
if your USB drive is found at E:. That should make your USB drive bootable, and now you can run Feather Linux.

If this doesn't work, try downloading the Debian “mbr” package and using that to install an MBR on the USB drive (this will delete everything on your USB drive!) . Then create a vfat filesystem (use mkdosfs /dev/sda1) and follow the above instructions.

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