On Fri, May 29, 2009 00:23, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > 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 >
Maybe SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) or another "recovery" system? Tim -- Timothy J. Bruce visit my Website at: http://www.tbruce.com Registered Linux User #325725 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
