[mdlug] Suggestions for flash-drive Linux?

[Fati]

I prefer the slax distribution for mobile linux. It's small to start
with, but has a great deal of modules available for extending it to
whatever you need.  It also has some nice features for mobility as a
cdrom based distro such as allowing you to save your configuration to
a local drive or to the web.

Also, as a word of caution, I ran linux off of a usb drive for a few
months pretty regularly and as a result, the drive didn't last long.
I think it's come up on this list before, but they have a very finite
amount of read/writes before they give out.

On 12/21/06, Richard Herrell <rherrell at twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> There are adapter cables available so that you can plug your flash
> drives into the IDE slot.  Your bios should have no problem, but they're
> normally not hot pluggable.
>
> If you're flexible on price, then a 4GB flash drive (about $70 at
> Amazon.com) should be sufficient space to install most modern Linux
> distributions.  If Fedora doesn't fit, then Ubuntu or Knoppix should fit.
>
> If you don't want a GUI, and you're mostly concerned about reducing
> space required, then you might want to start with a custom kernel and
> the busybox shell / basic embedded utilities.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
> Robert Meier wrote:
> > 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,
> >
>
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