Cannot get NB305 to boot USB drive to install Ubuntu 9.10 remix

I've created the Ubuntu 9.10 remix boot USB drive on another linux system.  I've altered the NB305 BIOS to boot from the USB stick first.  But whenever I restart the light on the USB stick flickers then the netbook continues by booting from the hard drive, i.e. Windows 7 starter.   Any suggestions? 

I've created the USB drive twice.   The first on a MAC using the exact steps defined on the page
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick.  When I tried that one, it wouldn't boot.   I tried again from a linux box using the 
That one wouldn't boot, so I tried a SUSE Linux approach which I found googling which suggested:
 sudo dd -bx M8 -if=ISOfilename -of=/dev/sdg1
That command is from memory, but I think it's close. Again, it wouldn't boot so I came to this forum.
In both the MAC created stick and the Linux stick, the files appear to be the same:
/media % ls -la Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix\ 9.10\ i386/
total 3467
dr-xr-xr-x 10 art  root    2048 2009-10-28 15:32 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root    4096 2010-03-08 16:36 ..
-r--r--r--  1 art  root     157 2009-10-28 15:32 autorun.inf
dr-xr-xr-x  2 art  root    2048 2009-10-28 15:32 casper
dr-xr-xr-x  2 art  root    2048 2009-10-28 15:32 .disk
dr-xr-xr-x  3 art  root    2048 2009-10-28 15:32 dists
dr-xr-xr-x  2 art  root    2048 2009-10-28 15:32 install
dr-xr-xr-x  2 art  root   14336 2009-10-28 15:32 isolinux
-r--r--r--  1 art  root    5389 2009-10-28 15:32 md5sum.txt
dr-xr-xr-x  2 art  root    2048 2009-10-28 15:32 pics
dr-xr-xr-x  4 art  root    2048 2009-10-28 15:32 pool
dr-xr-xr-x  2 art  root    2048 2009-10-28 15:32 preseed
-r--r--r--  1 art  root     236 2009-10-28 15:32 README.diskdefines
lr-xr-xr-x  1 art  root       1 2009-10-28 15:32 ubuntu -> .
-r--r--r--  2 art  root 2039576 2009-09-17 12:09 usb-creator.exe
-r--r--r--  1 art  root 1468640 2009-10-26 10:16 wubi.exe
Perhaps I'm missing something.   Thanks for the help.

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