Xandros 2.0 (like Smitty says)... It is by far the best at detecting
things and just working!
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From: flalug@nks.net [mailto:flalug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Smitty
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:51 AM
To: flalug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [flalug] distro suitable for thumb drive
On Thursday 10 June 2004 02:41, Eben King wrote:
> 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.
Give Xandros 2 a try with minimum installation.
Smitty
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