There are a few ways to do this, from installing to the USB as if it were a
hard drive. or setting up a livecd with persistence (this would pair well
with a load to ram option for the livcd)

just depends on how big a Thumb drive you have, and how much persistence
you want.


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, AZ Pete <plug@cactusfamily.com> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> I have a spare desktop computer and monitor sitting in the garage that I
> want to set up for my 10 year old son, but it doesn't have a hard drive.
> I'd rather not have to buy another hard drive (even though they are pretty
> cheap).
>
> I've read somewhere that Linux can be run from a USB flash drive. Since
> all this PC would be used for is general web surfing and web-based flash
> games, I thought that this would be a viable solution. It's about a 3 year
> old machine so the CPU and RAM are quite adequate.
>
> Can anyone point me to some resources on how to set this up?
>
> This PC doesn't have USB 3.0, will USB 2.0 be fast enough?
>
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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