"Missing operating system" - installing Linux on an Eee PC

[Octave]

Hi, I have a new asus netbook that came with Windows 7 Starter and I'm trying to install Linux Mint on it. I used unetbootin to burn the .iso onto a flash drive.
When I load the boot menu, I'm able to select the flash drive, but it says "Missing operating system" and then boots to Windows. The netbook is an asus 1015-PX and I ran unetbootin off an intel mac. Clearly I'm doing something wrong here. :v: I'd love some help so I could get this fixed.

[Mandalore777]

The computer is probably still asking for a cd regardless
kinda like the old pc games.
Even if you had the game installed you still needed the cd in the drive.

[TehWhale]

[QUOTE=Mandalore777;32531617]The computer is probably still asking for a cd regardless
kinda like the old pc games.
Even if you had the game installed you still needed the cd in the drive.[/QUOTE]What...?

[naelstrof]

My friend had the same problem when his usb drive was misconfigured.
He mentioned something like "oh i forgot to format it" and inevitably burned a disk anyway.

I highly recommend burning a disk for linux, but if you really can't then ensure that the usb is configured correctly and your bios is set to boot off of removable media.

[bassie]

He'll need a USB CD/DVD drive if he's gonna need a disk since the netbook model he has doesn't got one.