FWIW, Mandrake is offering a pretty cool deal that is similar. You can get a complete, ready to run system on a USB Thumb drive. I have not tried it ... yet <g> But I have heard a few good comments from people that have tried it.
MikeD Dutch Rapley wrote: > I think this line says it best. > > "Installing from a CD might be simpler, but it sure ain't as sexy/geeky." > > I actually did something a little differently. If anyone noticed last > night, I had an external hard drive attached to the computer. Rather > than installing openSUSE locally on my laptop, I had actually > installed it onto the external hardrive, including the MBR, and set my > computer to boot from USB before the internal hard drive. I > essentially have a "live installation" that I can plug into any > computer that supports "boot from USB." FYI, I would only do this over > USB 2.0. So if you wanted to try it at home, make sure your USB on > your computer and the external hard drive you use both support USB > 2.0. > > The hard drive I used is a Western Digital Passport. For computers > that supply it, it uses power over USB, so no external power supply is > necessary. > > -Dutch > > > On 4/19/07, Rob Ludwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Technically this could be done for other distro's too.... >> >> http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/ubuntu-draft-available-on-tap/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fwlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
