[plug] Linux on bootable USB memory key

[Timothy White]

On 7/14/05, Brad Campbell <brad at wasp.net.au> wrote:
> Chris Caston wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Has anyone installed Linux on a USB memory key before?
> >
> > How did you go about it and what distro/live cd did you use?
> >
> 
> Yes.. self built distro..
> Had 2 partitions on the key. A Fat16 using loadlin to boot, and an ext2 that held a stack of .tgz
> files that my initrd uncompressed into a ram disk to run the system. (The original design for this
> booted off CF).
> 
> But, the whole system actually ran from RAM and just saved some config data back to the key (each
> machine as 1.5GB of ram). So probably not *quite* what you are after.

Hmmm, I'd be interested in this distro. What's it got on it and how
big a memory key do you need?

Tim