Sunari Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Is it possible to get the linux livecd images onto a usb drive, and usethem on a computer that allows for a USB device booting? what exatcly would be involved? is it just a straight copy+paste. AS well as would you get better performance? etc etc? Ideas, comments, walkthrough :P all appreciated.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxAtimiskxx Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 heres a link http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/li...ux-20041109.ars oh and next time google it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 depending on the size of ur USB, i suggest DSL (Damn Small Linux) or DSLN (Damn Small Linux Not), both these are intended for the USB flash drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 oh and next time google it. Can you stop with the just google it? I've seen you say that about 3 or 4 times in the last 12 hours, quit it, will you? Sure, I say it sometimes, but if that's all you've got to say, maybe you might want to think a bit harder next time you post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 heres a link http://arstechnica.com/articles/columns/li...ux-20041109.arsoh and next time google it. For everyones information: "just fucking google it!" and its many variants: NO* "have you tried searching for X?"/"A quick google search turned up a few links, x, y, z": YES *in cases where the OP is repeatedly asking one line questions along the lines of "where is the 'A' on my keyboard? All I see is 'a'", then yes this is fine, but usually a mod will come along and say this, before locking the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Back on topic, I've been thinking recently about U3 and Linux. Basically the beauty of a U3 USB drive is that it presents part of itself as a CDROM drive. The BIOS even sees the drive. Therefore even if an older system that does not have a boot from USB option can use this to boot from a small linux distro. The partition is quite small, 6MB if I remember correctly. I tried to use one of the switchblade tools to write a MS DOS boot image to the CDFS partition but was unsuccess in my first tests. I've since put the project on the backburner but would love to follow up on this if anyone has some input. Maybe its been done before but my googling at the time didnt turn up any relevent results. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 hmm ive kinda done it, though im using Dos, to set up the USB DOS drivers for the U3, then it pretty much mounts it and then boots to linux via the copy of Backtrack on my U3 Data Partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxAtimiskxx Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 im sorry moonlit. i wont say just google it. but yeah i do remeber seeing a post on hack a day about it. i just found one on how to get linux on a flash drive. it seems simple enough heres a link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunari Posted February 6, 2007 Author Share Posted February 6, 2007 So you want to basically have the U3 USB drive CDROM partition reference stuff on the USB partition? Man the fun you could have with this if it worked.. i wonder how fast you could have it install, have it completly silent on teh computer.. granted it might be hard to setup a hidden boot operator. Elaborate some more, i havent coded in a while, since i started my business degree so i dont know how useful i'd be. but this would be pretty sweet to develop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickarse Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 I've used DSL over PXE and on a USB key... it works fairly well. It's lightweight too. Only around 60mb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a5an0 Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Damn Small Linux has an "embedded" version that can be run off a usb drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underground5 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 oh and next time google it. Can you stop with the just google it? I've seen you say that about 3 or 4 times in the last 12 hours, quit it, will you? Sure, I say it sometimes, but if that's all you've got to say, maybe you might want to think a bit harder next time you post. i agree and disagree with the whole "just google it" thing, because sometimes you can just google it. but google isn't the end all know all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underground5 Posted February 15, 2007 Share Posted February 15, 2007 DSL was my first live linux cd that i ever used i remember freaking out my teachers with it in the 4th grade, but anyway's i've forgotten about it intill now and i just got a brand new 512mb sandisk cruzer so i'm gonna go check out the latest version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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