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Linux on USB Thumb Drive
Name: jconner Date: February 19, 2004 at 20:20:41 Pacific OS: win 2k RH9 CPU/Ram: 2.6 1 gig ram
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I have been thinking about putting a Linux Distro on a USB device. I haven't purchased the device or chosen a Distro. I was wondering about a couple of things, How is the access speed... What happens when you connect to other computers with diferent hardware setups? Has anyone done this? Any recomendations on A USB device? a Distro? Thanks!
Name: Don Arnett Date: February 19, 2004 at 20:26:15 Pacific
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I think that speed will be the least of your worries. They're faster than reading a hard drive.
The question is, how will you get the PC to boot off the Thumb drive?
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Response Number 2
Name: jconner Date: February 19, 2004 at 21:15:21 Pacific
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Somes bios versions have USB as a boot option.
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Response Number 3
Name: heart_debian Date: February 20, 2004 at 00:22:30 Pacific
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Not mine though, if it can be booted then there should be no problem just copying a small distro to the USB-drive.
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Response Number 4
Name: 3Dave Date: February 20, 2004 at 08:27:57 Pacific
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I've never tried it but you might want to have a look at zipslack (www.slackware.com) which takes up ~100Mb and can be installed onto a zip disk.
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Response Number 5
Name: jconner Date: February 20, 2004 at 21:31:54 Pacific
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Thanks, I checked out Slackware for zipslack and I may just give it a try. I have kinda changed my approach though. Now I am thinking that I will use a distro on a bootable CD and use the thumbdrive as a writeable drive. Thanks again.
Summary: I was given a usb thumb drive that will not open in Windows due to corruption. Simply, I want to see if I can mount it in Linux or use cfdisk to repartition it. When I plug it in and start my computer...
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