[PLUG] Running Linux off a USB drive?

[Chris Jantzen]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:08:42PM -0700, Matt Alexander wrote:
> I just got this nifty watch from ThinkGeek:
> 
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/watches/5eec/
> 
> It has 512MB and I'd like to install Knoppix-STD on it (which is just
> under 500MB).
> 
> http://www.knoppix-std.org/
> 
> Does anyone know of a good HOWTO for taking an ISO, moving it to a USB
> drive, and making it bootable?

I'm "doing" (translation: not done) it with my own config of
Debian. So far, I find the hardest part is getting the bootloader to
work right. After that, it's pretty breezy. Personally, I'm going with
the "big fat initrd" approach, because that avoids excessive flash
writes/reads.

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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