[PLUG] USB Linux?

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Wed Dec 8 23:42:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:38:29 -0800, AthlonRob <AthlonRob at axpr.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 18:47 -0800, Aaron wrote:
> > I''ve had a pretty experience with DSL as a bootable CD. I know that its
> > USB pendrive booting is fairly documented .  Supposedly feather linux
> > works pretty well also but it seems like its less developed than DSL.
> > featherlinux.berlios.de
> 
> I've spent a good portion of the 24 hours researching these things...
> 
> It turns out I made an incorrect assumption.  I assumed most of these
> LiveCDs would be full of useful utilities to work on a system that
> wouldn't otherwise boot.  Strangely enough, they're almost *all*
> targetting traditional Desktop users as a full Desktop Distro On The Go.
> 
> Most of them don't even have simple things like nmap or clamav or
> chkrootkit.
> 
> So... I'm going to work on porting INSERT over to USB key.  I've run in
> to some strange problems.  Unfortunately, due to the nature of booting
> from USB keys, I'm not sure if these problems are related to my USB key,
> to my motherboard, or to the software/configuration I'm using.  :-\
> 

One that I found that seems to work correctly is SPB-Linux @
http://www.8ung.at/spblinux/

also for a recovery distro what about
tomsrtbt  http://www.toms.net/rb/

I have also had success just following the info
from the syslinux web site http://syslinux.zytor.com/
using my own compiled kernel and a intial ramdisk



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