Re: rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?
Matt Price wrote: > hi, > > my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model > number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk > failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but > will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kind of > machine (limited speed & memory, but pretty specialized needs, esp for > the touch screen). For now though I just want to try and boot the > thing. apparently the external usb hard drive my dad has for the > thing won't boot, and I don't have any on hand. I currently have only > one usb key, which is 128 megs, and I was wondering if anyone knew of > a distro that would run off of a removable medium this small. > > thanks as always for the help! > > matt > > sysresccd is a nice tool, tough i don't know how is it going to deal with a tablet... http://www.sysresccd.org/Download -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?
Matt Price wrote: hi, my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kind of machine (limited speed & memory, but pretty specialized needs, esp for the touch screen). For now though I just want to try and boot the thing. apparently the external usb hard drive my dad has for the thing won't boot, and I don't have any on hand. I currently have only one usb key, which is 128 megs, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a distro that would run off of a removable medium this small. thanks as always for the help! matt I just recently tried out two different Live distros. Damn Small Linux and Debian Etch Live. DSL had a GUI Desktop, but if you're comfortable with the command prompt, I'd recommend Debian Etch Live instead. I can't recall exactly what problems I had with DSL at the moment, but I had more luck with Etch Live. DSL was running a 2.4 kernel for one thing, while Etch Live was running a nice, shiney 2.6.something. =) I was running it off a CD, but I *think* the entire thing was only about 80~90 MB, so it should fit on that USB thumb drive of yours. Here's the address for the Debian Live Project: http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ Hope that helps, - GM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?
On 10/31/06, Nicolas Pillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2006/10/31, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I currently have only one usb key, which is 128 megs, and I was > wondering if anyone knew of a distro that would run off of a removable > medium this small. Damn Small Linux (DSL) may do the trick http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ See also Slax (http://www.slax.org/), particularly the Popcorn edition, and grml (http://grml.org/ and http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb). Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?
2006/10/31, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I currently have only one usb key, which is 128 megs, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a distro that would run off of a removable medium this small. Damn Small Linux (DSL) may do the trick http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?
hi, my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kind of machine (limited speed & memory, but pretty specialized needs, esp for the touch screen). For now though I just want to try and boot the thing. apparently the external usb hard drive my dad has for the thing won't boot, and I don't have any on hand. I currently have only one usb key, which is 128 megs, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a distro that would run off of a removable medium this small. thanks as always for the help! matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
