[aklug] Re: I'm feeling a bit masochistic

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Thu Sep 24 2009 - 01:52:11 AKDT

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Kurt Brendgard wrote:
> I'm looking for a distro that I can download an play with, from a flash drive. It needs to be something already set up to be run from a USB flash drive. It also needs to be something with a GUI, and preferably something oriented towards a rescue disk type distro. Anybody had any fun with anything of that nature recently and can give a recomendation or warnings?
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> Thanks.
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If I may insert my semi-educated thought... I'm told that you can easily
install just about any distro or distro's ISO onto flash drives using
"unetbootin":

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/#features

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks cool. I was planning to use it
shortly to install the 2008 Gentoo install ISO onto a USB stick:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml

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