Re: [SLUG] distro suitable for thumb drive

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Thu Jun 10 2004 - 08:45:45 EDT


Eben King wrote:

>I have a 512 MB USB flash drive, and my laptop can boot from it (at least,
>I'm pretty sure it can). I want to make my wireless NIC work when booted
>from that, before I trash XP on the main drive. I'd be really in a bad
>place if I trashed the only OS that can use the 802.11 interface. Since
>the laptop uses a Centrino chipset, it's mostly unsupported.
>
>What's an appropriate distribution to put on it? I'll have to upgrade to
>kernel 2.6 if it's not there already; I believe the module that might
>support the NIC is new to 2.6. X is a bonus, although I'm perfectly
>comfortable in text mode. I've tried Knoppix 3.4 (kernel 2.6; installer
>died near the beginning, saying it expected at least 7 radio buttons and
>only found 4), SuSE 9 (no bootloader?), Lindows 4.5 (failed, unable to
>create swap device -- which is OK since one shouldn't swap to flash
>anyhow), Puppy Linux, and Al-AMLUG. Something (SuSE 9?) overwrote the
>boot sector on my hard drive, leading to some sessions in the Recovery
>Console. Grr.
>
>I actually got SuSE 9 down to 64% of 512 MB (whassat... about 328 MB),
>with no X, so it is possible with a recent distribution.
>
>If the laptop CAN'T boot from USB, a LILO floppy should take care of it,
>yes?
>
>
>
What about debian? It can be installed in *well* under 512 MB, even with X.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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