I did use that method. I went to the iso from 1KDStaz0.9 and it said that it installed it fine to my USB...loaded that from boot and came to a screen that was blue with options to boot from....not BIOS, it was the USB stick boot screen for Linux. I hit the second option since the first (default) didn't work. It loaded the rootfs.gz file and had the dots on the bottom of the screen progressing. Then a splash screen appeared and went through a lot of data about my comp system. After that I saw a lot of [OK] next to items for like 1 second on screen....then BAM! Static-ish stuff all over the screen frozen....on the bottom was moving static-ish lines and blurs...did that for over 5 mins. I shut down. Tried the ISO from a CD. SAME RESULT except that the boot screen looked different "boot baby boot"...hit enter. Dotted yellow lines on bottom of screen. Then same old static for minutes....shut down....posted here on forums very confused.
it gets to the :50 sec mark in this persons video (NOT MY VIDEO) and then the screen goes nuts...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJtFxGbwFDU
I am starting to think my comp (a laptop) hates me and I should try another persons. Or ...... throw my x in the toilet and take it back to VZW.