What I normally do is to boot any computer off of an install CD and find the
USB partition.
Then I run a plain vanilla install to that partition.
For as long as you don't get creative with X drivers, it will boot your
washing machine.
As usual, YMMV and you can't sue me.
Free advice... :)
ET
AZ Pete writes:
>
>
> 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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