linux on USB drive

[Kim Holburn]

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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Kim Holburn  
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