I want to make a really small, single-purpose no-GUI Linux install on a USB key. The simplest looking process I have discovered so far is this one for Damned Small Linux:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Install_to_USB_From_within_Linux ------------------------------------------------------------- The question: Are there any simpler or faster-booting techniques out there? ------------------------------------------------------------- Keith ( BTW, the purpose of this is a simple drive-clone backup for a gag-Win7-gag box. My wife is using a WinPC to run Dragon speech recognition. She needs every ounce of performance - baremetal Win required, no virtualization, sigh. When she is done, she inserts the USB key and reboots. D.S.Linux runs dd to clone the main hard drive to an identical hard drive in an external SATA cradle, then shuts down. D.S.L. is the smallest and fastest booting Linux I know about, and should be adequate for this task - assuming I can *always* keep the source and the target drives straight, probably with some combination of /dev/sdX identifiers and a timestamp someplace. ) -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
