[PLUG] Damned Small USB or better?

Patrick J. Timlick p.j.timlick at ieee.org
Fri May 29 14:31:50 UTC 2009


Have you looked at the moblin fast boot stuff?

http://moblin.org/projects/fast-boot

AFIK it holds the record for fast booting.
Don't know if it is practical enough for your use.
-- Patrick Timlick

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> I want to make a really small, single-purpose no-GUI Linux
> install on a USB key.  The simplest looking process I have
> discovered so far is this one for Damned Small Linux:
>
>
> http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Install_to_USB_From_within_Linux
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> The question:
> Are there any simpler or faster-booting techniques out there?
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Keith
>
>
> ( BTW, the purpose of this is a simple drive-clone backup for a
> gag-Win7-gag box.  My wife is using a WinPC to run Dragon speech
> recognition.  She needs every ounce of performance - baremetal Win
> required, no virtualization, sigh.  When she is done, she inserts
> the USB key and reboots.  D.S.Linux runs dd to clone the main hard
> drive to an identical hard drive in an external SATA cradle, then
> shuts down.  D.S.L. is the smallest and fastest booting Linux I know
> about, and should be adequate for this task - assuming I can *always*
> keep the source and the target drives straight, probably with some
> combination of /dev/sdX identifiers and a timestamp someplace. )
>
> --
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