I wanted a live Debian system on my USB key. The Debian Live option is too static for my taste, I wanted a real live system, upgradable via apt-get etc...
One option is to use a large enough USB drive and do a plain Debian install on it. But my USB drive is only 128MB so it was not possible. I saw someone on the web has done something like that using squashfs+unionfs and so you can do apt-get update and then to store the resulting state back on the drive, you do some kind of "commit". I didn't want to go down that route, so instead I've used a "plain normal Debian system", but using jffs2 as a file system, which has the advantage of being compressed and writable. The whole story can be found at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/gnu-linux/debian-live-usb -- Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]