[mdlug] Suggestions for flash-drive Linux?

[Robert Meier]

Ray,

> I'd like to experiment with a flash-based, bootable Linux distro.
> What have y'all found out about such things?

Several months ago,
I spent a day unsuccesssuly loading knoppix on a flash drive.

> What's a good place to start,

I started by simply copying knoppix to the flash drive.

> what kind of experience do people have with them?

I found that my laptop bios doesn't recognize a usb device as bootable,
and doesn't recognize the flash drive as a hard disk util after linux
and its drivers come up.

> In practice, what works better - all on flash,
> or a combination of a bootable CD/DVD and a flash drive as a home directory?

<SUGGESTION>
Unless your bios can boot from usb, you will need boot from a CD/DVD.
If you are already using a CD/DVD, I see no benefit from putting the OS
anywhere else.
The flash drive is then the storage for your home directory,
OS extensions (e.g. /opt), ...
</SUGGESTION>

I did not have time to actually implement the above suggestion,
so there may be pitfalls.

Suggesting,
-- 
Dr. Robert J. Meier