[PLUG] Flash Linux on USB
Larry Brigman
larry.brigman at gmail.com
Sat Nov 15 06:25:19 UTC 2008
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Steve D... <blitters at gmail.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine recently picked up a cheap little IBM T40 laptop
> with a missing hard drive. I found out why it was cheap when I tried
> to insert a drive and install Linux. The hard disk driver on the
> motherboard is kaput. Everything else on the machine appears to work
> fine.
>
> It looks like a replacement motherboard on eBay runs around
> $100-150. I was thinking about forgetting the new motherboard and
> hard drive and go to a USB flash based distro instead. A 8-Gig flash
> and a small USB hub is only $20-30. I installed Damn Small Linux
> (DSL) on a 512Mb USB flash thumb drive last night. The T40 booted on
> DSL and seemed to run OK.
>
> Is anyone else running a machine off a USB flash drive? Would it be
> a stable method to operate a laptop? The T40 will only see moderate
> use. She does most of her computing on a more powerful desktop
> system.
>
At the Red Hat summit in Boston, the Fedora team unveiled persistent storage
on USB with the Full Fedora 9 Desktop. Full system and persistence on 2GB.
https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
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