I have a 512 MB USB flash drive, and my laptop can boot from it (at least,
I'm pretty sure it can). I want to make my wireless NIC work when booted
from that, before I trash XP on the main drive. I'd be really in a bad
place if I trashed the only OS that can use the 802.11 interface. Since
the laptop uses a Centrino chipset, it's mostly unsupported.
What's an appropriate distribution to put on it? I'll have to upgrade to
kernel 2.6 if it's not there already; I believe the module that might
support the NIC is new to 2.6. X is a bonus, although I'm perfectly
comfortable in text mode. I've tried Knoppix 3.4 (kernel 2.6; installer
died near the beginning, saying it expected at least 7 radio buttons and
only found 4), SuSE 9 (no bootloader?), Lindows 4.5 (failed, unable to
create swap device -- which is OK since one shouldn't swap to flash
anyhow), Puppy Linux, and Al-AMLUG. Something (SuSE 9?) overwrote the
boot sector on my hard drive, leading to some sessions in the Recovery
Console. Grr.
I actually got SuSE 9 down to 64% of 512 MB (whassat... about 328 MB),
with no X, so it is possible with a recent distribution.
If the laptop CAN'T boot from USB, a LILO floppy should take care of it,
yes?
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