RE: using Linux from a flash drive

Mike and Karen,
I agree. Puppy is great for this. In fact here's a version
already set up to use from a flash drive using QEMU - an
emulator. It'll open in Windows or Linux as a virtual machine so
you don't have to reboot or anything. And it can be set up to
boot from the USB stick if you like. I have it loaded on a couple
of 1Gb sticks - it takes 277Mb. It comes preloaded with most of
the stuff you normally need to have. Take a look at it at:
http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/qemupuppy/

Lance

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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On
Behalf Of Michael Figley
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 8:20 PM
To: kciocchi@excite.com; aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: using Linux from a flash drive

--- Karen Ciocchi <kciocchi@excite.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all! I would welcome your sage advice.
> My goal is to surf exclusively using Linux (Ubuntu, Knoppix,
doesn't
> matter to me) and to store any downloads somewhere on a FAT32
> partition I can access later with Windows. [dual booting, Wine,
and VM
> Ware are not viable solutions in this case]
> It seems that buying a 1-2GB flash drive could work, as my
laptop
> can boot from that device.
> This leads to some questions:
>
> Q1: How many GB would you allocate for a minimal Linux + Open
Office
> + GIMP installation?
> Q2: Will the choice of device make any difference? Are the
terms
> "flash drive" and "jump drive" interchangeable?
> Q3: Which device brands are reliable? I've already had a
cheap flash
> drive die on me.
>
> Thanks!
> Karen Ciocchi
>

Considered a puppy lately?

http://www.puppylinux.org

If you have CD, boot from custom CD, with personal storage on
FAT32 Flash.

( could boot from USB but why? when you can
  save r/w space on flash by allocating static
  files to r/o CD )

Cheers!
Mike F.

       
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