antiX boots from fat32.

Not sure how grub4dos works, but it looks ok. You don't need en as US English is default nor blab=antiXlive (though it doesn't hurt to have it). xres may not be needed either. You might need to add nomodeset if you want to disable the nouveau driver.

Mine looks like this for grub-legacy and persistence. bdev is the boot device.

Thanks. I realised that blab was bootlabel so changed that to match the name of the stick I was testing with (BOOT). It seems to work OK after that but I'll try removing the possibly unneeded parameters as you suggest.

Then I'll start reading from the top and see if I can get persistence working without asking any more questions. Probably not though __{{emoticon}}__

I was quite amazed at how little RAM antiX used when I tested it. It was around 64MB, whereas Puppy Linux seems to use around 240MB (which isn't great on a 256MB laptop, although I've just ordered another 256MB for it), so I think I'll be using antiX. I mainly need it to RDP into a Windows box (I understand remmina is the best tool for that) and to SSH into the same Windows box (running WinSSH) to use that as a proxy for browsing when not at home and to RDP over SSH as well but I'll ask about that in a new thread if I get stuck.