[PLUG] Running Linux off a USB drive?

Matt Alexander m at phxlinux.org
Tue Mar 30 15:11:01 UTC 2004


On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Chris Jantzen wrote:

> 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.

You'll probably want to mount your filesystems with noatime too.








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