Wanted: Flash Drive bootable Linus Info.

[Eric "Shubes"]

David Bendit wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> 
>> I realize that this thread may be "done" already (case closed),
>> but just for my 0.02,  I happened to notice that at
>>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damn_Small_Linux
>> it specifically states (in the intro, even above the TOC) that:
>> << "Due to the small size of the complete distribution, it will run  
>> on smaller storage devices than most other OSes, including bootable  
>> business card, 64Mb USB Flash Drive , CompactFlash card (through  
>> IDE connector) and ZIP drive." >>
>> Since you had stated,
>>> [...]  preferably on a 1GB or smaller flash drive?
>> I thought this might be of interest.
> 
> This is true, however, DSL is a LiveCD-like environment that the  
> original post specifically wants to avoid. Sure, there's some level  
> of modifiability with the use of the DSL packaging system, but  
> there's still no way to save files and documents between boots  
> (unless they changed something recently...I could be wrong). Only way  
> to do that with DSL would be to have 2 partitions on the USB drive,  
> one for the DSL stuff, the other as a home dir. Then, you'd need to  
> mount the other partition on every boot, or re-master the DSL  
> partition as a whole. Messy stuff.
> 
> -David

I played around with DSL a year or two ago, and TTBOMK it had recently
acquired the ability to save things (files, profiles) to the HDD.
-- 
-Eric 'shubes'