I just learned about puppyos.com http://www.puppyos.com/
A small scale Linux distro designed for booting off USB flash devices. I am downloading it now and will see how well it works for me. On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 11:37 -0400, Python wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:41 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > > I'd like to see the answer to this also. As an ancilliary point... > > > > The number of writes to a jump drive is large but not unlimited. It's A > > Good Thing to add the noatime attribute to your fstab so that things like > > an ls command, or anything that reads a file doesn't update the accesstime > > for the file. > > > > /dev/sdd2 /mnt/jump vfat noatime,noauto,user 0 0 > > > > Ideally there is now a new-fangled way to do that in the usb > configuration stuff. > > > BTW, there was a sale at uCenter this weekend. $16. > > uCenter? Google was no help. > > > That wasn't to make you feel bad but just to point out how cheap it's > > really getting. > > I decided to try making it a bootable linux (fedora, since that's what I > am using otherwise). That worked. I needed to specify linux expert > when booting the install DVD. The partitioning interface can be a > little confusing because the outline/tree view will expand unexpectedly > so that you will find your pointer on the WRONG drive at times. I used > two ext3 partitions for boot and root. > > After I was done the drive autoloaded! My earlier changes had been done > with gparted. My guess is that there is some difference in the handling > of the bytes. I will do a careful comparison at some point when I get > the chance. > > The only other issue I faced is that the fedora labels (e2label command) > were /root and /boot which caused some confusion when autoloading the > device. /boot got (auto-magically) relabeled to /boot1 at some point. > I changed the labels to usbroot and usbgrub and then edited the > grub.conf and fstab files to fit the new names. > -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss