I was able to install to and boot from Sandisk Cruzer USB thumb drive
using the instructions mentioned here:
http://www.benusa.com/linux/boot.htm
My only problem is that this doesn't work on some Cruzer usb thumb
drives. The 'bad' thumb drives fail during boot
--------vga ouput-----
partition check:
sda: #Notice that sda1 doesn't appear as it does on 'good'
drive
Creating block devices
Creating root device
mkrootdev: label / not found
reread partation table
# hangs here forever
-----end output--------

I've added longer sleeps, etc.

Anyone have any ideas as to waht would be the fix for these other
Cruzer thumb drives.

Thanks...