linux digest, Vol 1 #1091 - Subject: linux on USB drive

[Steve Cooper]

i've seen it don't from a flash card...
maybe it maybe worth wile to check out the knoppix project
its a bootable distro that runs off a cdrom completely
www.knoppix.net
but if you want to boot from a usb drive the bios has to support it!
Regards
Steve
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:02:55 +1100
> To: clug <linux at lists.samba.org>
> From: Kim Holburn <kim.holburn at anu.edu.au>
> Subject: linux on USB drive
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to set up a linux system that boots off a USB drive.  I want to
> cut down on writes as much as possible.  I assume /proc is really in memory
> and not on the disk?  I have a system without a swap partition and I'd like
> to get rid of as much of /var as possible.
>
> Anyone got any pointers on how to do this?  I'm looking at RUNT but it
> needs a boot floppy and I don't have a floppy drive, just the USB.
>
> Kim

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Note to the masses:
Folks.... Rule of thumb.  If it says beta, the chances are good that unless 
you are a developer of some kind with good skills, you *are* going to break 
your system.  When the docs say might, read might as *WILL*.  Beta is for 
testing... and tests fail.
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