I would probably prefer a USB. I have lots of them laying around in sizes 
ranging from 1Gb to  16Gb.
Anysites that explain how to installLinux to a USB drive suchthat the system 
would view it as a hard drive?
Thanks!
Peter

On 4/24/2014 4:58 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
There are a few ways to do this, from installing to the USB as if it were a 
hard drive. or setting up a livecd with persistence (this would pair well with 
a load to ram option for the livcd)

just depends on how big a Thumb drive you have, and how much persistence you 
want.


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, AZ Pete <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hi All,

    I have a spare desktop computer and monitor sitting in the garage that I 
want to set up for my 10 year old son, but it doesn't have a hard drive. I'd 
rather not have to buy another hard drive (even though they are pretty cheap).

    I've read somewhere that Linux can be run from a USB flash drive. Since all 
this PC would be used for is general web surfing and web-based flash games, I 
thought that this would be a viable solution. It's about a 3 year old machine 
so the CPU and RAM are quite adequate.

    Can anyone point me to some resources on how to set this up?

    This PC doesn't have USB 3.0, will USB 2.0 be fast enough?


    Any thoughts are appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Peter


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