===== Making a bootable USB stick =====
This describes how to make a USB-FDD (super-floppy) layout, bootable USB stick.
The result will be bootable by the ASUS EeePC, Everex Cloudbook and the HP-2133.

This media layout (USB-FDD) is limited to 1Gbyte or smaller (2Gbyte if careful and lucky) USB sticks.

==== Requirements ====
  * A computer running Linux or other *nix system.
  * The utility packages dosfstools and syslinux.
  * A 1Gbyte or smaller USB stick.

Use your system's package manager to install the above two packages if not already installed.

==== Command line steps ====
=== Find what the current device assignments are: ===
  * cat /proc/partitions
Insert the USB stick to be written, repeat the above command;
The newly displayed device is the one you just plugged in.

The newly added device will be presumed to be /dev/sdc in the following.
=== Zero the entire device ===
  * dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512

=== Force a whole device FAT format ===
  * mkfs.vfat -I /dev/sdc

=== Make the device bootable ===
  * syslinux /dev/sdc

The USB stick is now bootable.  If you tried it at this point, you would 
get the syslinux sign-on notice and boot prompt.

=== To install the desired files on the now bootable stick ===
Make a place to mount the stick if you do not already have one.
  * mkdir /media/usb1

Mount the stick.
  * mount /dev/sdc /media/usb1

Copy any desired files to the stick.
Read the directions given by the command:
  * man syslinux
to learn how-to setup the configuration file.

The stick just created can be used to boot Linux and DOS programs, including Windows.

=== To safely remove the stick from the system after file changes ===
The FAT driver in Linux does not support the sync command, do:
  * mount -o remount /mnt/usb1
  * wait while the file buffers are flushed
  * umount /mnt/usb1

Enjoy.