I have been toying with DSL over the past couple days (Damn Small Linux,
'embedded' version 3.1, kernel 2.4.26), booted via syslinux 3.31,
installed on a 2GB FAT32-formatted San curser.
It's quiet impressive how much they fit into those 50 MB!
From what I have tested so far the same QEMU sandbox behaved stable when
started from within Mandriva2006, Win2000, XP. Booting from the USB stick
directly was not always successful, nor reproducible --that's still an
ongoing research project, so I spare you the details.
Back to the QEMU sandbox: although it's nice to carry your data around on
a unix filesystem (and edit them wherever you go -- which I tested
wherever I went), I found the sandbox limitations a bit frustrating so
far: I was not able to mount any of the local file systems to the
sandbox... But, I want the power of a Knoppix Live-CD on a modifiable USB
key !!!). Going over the network often led to stalled connections (with
wget for their default upgrade procedure, and even over sftp when I put my
own server in the middle); digging deeper into issues often doesn't work
because of sandbox limitations, e.g. no traceroute allowed because 'raw
socket' required.
OK, enough bitching... maybe I am on the wrong track and someone on this
list has figured out a nice portable system, both USB-bootable and
some-sort-of-EMU support?
Yes, I am aware that Mandriva is offering a Live system on USB:
http://www.mandriva.com/en/individuals/products/node_3482
but thought it would but cool to build your own.
- Horst
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