I finished setting it up, tried booting on both my laptop and our old desktop.

--Laptop is an "old" Compaq Presario, harddrive died a long time ago and with the new HD came a new 'version' of windows...whatever the cause, I have yet to solve how to boot from USB. Hitting the F12 gets me an attempt to boot from LAN, not a boot list. Try F2?

--Desktop is a Dell Inspiron(?) that is VERY old and VERY slow....or should I say was! Knoppix worked perfectly and turned a normally 5 minute long boot session into literally 45 seconds! I'm happy