On Tue April 20 2004 15:40, Jeffrey Clement wrote: <snip> > > As for installing Linux on the USB key that may pose more of a problem. > You would need a system capable of booting off that. I don't work with new > enough hardware to have any experience with that. Good luck if you try > that. I would personally just use a mini CDR. Cheaper / MB and since > usually you don't need R/W access to these emergency distros... > > Jeff
I'm working on making a bootable USB key right now, and I must say it sure is a lot simpler to download an ISO and burn it to CD. :-P There are even distros for mini-CD (e.g. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) if a regular CD is too big to carry around. The reason I'm trying it on my USB key is that it has otherwise gone totally unused for anything else, so I figure why not? However, for practicality CD is still the way to go. In researching putting Linux on my USB key, I came across these links which may be useful to others. http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Linux_bootable_USB_key_HOWTO The distro I'm trying: http://spblinux.sourceforge.net/ -2.1beta11 includes kernel 2.6.3 as well as WLAN support, etc. The 2.0 stable release is based on kernel 2.4.21. Both can optionally have a lot of goodies thrown in as well (e.g. Mozilla Firefox, Flash, JRE, X, MPlayer, etc.) SPBLinux requires quite a bit of setup and I'm pretty sure it doesn't adhere to LSB. ;-) �If anybody knows of any other distros/ways of booting from USB key, please reply. �I can still use all the options I can get. �:-) Either way, have fun! Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
