I am currently working on somthing like what you are doing. I also, am using DamnSmall Linux. I
am also using, a 256mb usb pen drive. I recently got an email about using DamnSmall Linux, and it
said that they have or are working on a version that runs on a usb drive. I haven't had the time
in recent weeks to work on this project. I would enjoy hearing what you have tried. I will have
to find my papers on what I did, but I still haven't got it to work.
William
--- cpace@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> I have recently acquired a USB Pen Drive and it works
> great under linux. What I want to do is to actually
> put a linux distro on it and boot to the USB drive
> (my bios supports this funtion). I'm working with
> DamnSmall Linux (www.damnsmalllinux.org) since it is
> based on Knoppix and is supposed to have good
> hardware detection. My problem is that I am trying
> to figure out how to make the USB Pen drive bootable?
> I believe I could mount it with my main linux box and
> then switch the root fs to the pen drive but the
> damnsmall linux distro has a compressed image and I
> am unsure as to how they get the bootloader to
> decompress it?? I am open to suggestions for another
> distro as long as it has X windows. I have a 256M
> Pen Drive but would like something that fits on 128M
> or less. Any ideas, suggestions or references to
> information would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Pace
>
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