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- atdigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I have both Puppy Linux and DSL on a USB flash drive, they are very useful.
- hombrelobo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12ok .......................cannot delete now ... I put the digg link precisely to avoid being accused of self promoting my own blog ... the link was totally related ... I am investigating alternative ways to install Linux, that's why .... accepted though ..... :(
- goofballjm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12"Well, it got 1100 diggs, it wasn't that bad I hope ..... but I liked this one, that's why I sent it to digg to."
@hombrelobo
It's not that the article you wrote was bad, it just looks like shameless self promotion when you mention your article, and the fact that it was on Digg, and to top it off, you just happened to post a link on it. that's why it was buried. - scottauth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8No one is saying it was not previously available -- this is a guide on how to install it (note: it helps to read the article or in this case the title completely).
- lowkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Another set of howtos can be found at http://feraga.com, including how to install with the root partition encrypted.
- ryanknapper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"It's like having a mini personal computer in your pocket!"
Actually, it's more like having a mini personal hard drive in your pocket. With Linux installed on it. - jackdirt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just the other day i was looking for doing this to a pcmcia drive but this is a way better solution
- Ashex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yep, This makes four times I've seen a linux on thumdrive article front-paged.
I guess it's time for a shameless plug of my tutorial using feather linux:
http://www.chipnick.com/thumbdrive-linux
Also, the feather linux tutorial on that site doesn't work for the majority of the people who have tried it, considering that it was ripped from the "official" one. - mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hey no one has said "Buy a Mac" yet...
- duality, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Of course, everybody on Digg probably remembers that Microsoft has released a set of features that "Vista-certified" hardware must meet, one of which is that it must be able to boot from a USB flash drive. Ironically, I believe that this little detail will turn out to be a hidden blessing for Linux and other free operating systems.
- stepnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3“Buy a mac...”
Put it target disk mode - and make it the most expensive firewire boot disk ever...... - veza, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ubuntu dapper here.
- duality, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Darn it, mandarin, you jinxed the thread! Somebody's going to say it now! :-P
- Lobster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have been using Puppy as my main OS for over a year. Before that I had XP on the HD and booted from a Puppy CD about 30% of the time. Initially I installed Puppy on Hard Disk and USB keydrive - some people run it this way. However it took me a long while to realize that Puppy can create one data file on the hard disk for settings and now can run and save on a recordable DVD. It will also run from flash hard drives on high end laptops. Recently Puppy 2.01 was released and this will run with as little as 32 meg ram. We really are quite a tiny distro . . . but we run with the wind . . .
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy201 - IronChef, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Really would be helpful if somebody came up with a EASY pen drive Linux boot method for a bios that doesn't support USB boot!
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If I could put hirens and Linux on my flash drive with relative ease I would be more inclined to use a flash drive instead of a cd.
- hombrelobo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I am trying to use the same explanation in here for Knoppix with Ubuntu .... downloading now .... :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My personal favorite is Puppy Linux. Although, it'd be pretty cool to figure out how to boot the Ubuntu Dapper live distro from a pen drive... Hmmm....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Of course they've been available, but difficult to work with. This is MUCH easier than prevoius methods.
- starheart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was doing this last weekend. I in the process learned just how poor usb boot support is on old, but relatively new machines, ie athlon xp systems.
I got Knoppix 5.0.1 to boot off my new 4gb flash drive. One think I suggest is using the accelerated version of Knoppix. It uses lcat to speed up the boot process. The claim is half the boot time. It did seem quite a bit faster.
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24404 - shumacher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's in the Ubuntu Dapper release notes as being supported. I have not yet tried it, but I mean to soon.
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/releasenotes/606#head-ec6a08a275a32b7d084cdc9de48afe6cdf4aaba2 - Araya213, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love the idea, but I installed DSL on a drive and was only able to boot it on 3 of 11 computers I tried it on and that's after fiddling with BIOS setting and everything. Worked great when it worked though!
- alandd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wish granted!
http://damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html
"All earnings from the sale of this item go into funding the development of DSL."
256MB, $60.00 plus shipping. - Burns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Unless of course your BIOS don't allow you to boot from a USB device like mine.
- oringo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there anyway to directly copy the puppy linux image onto a usb pen w/o having to burn a cd and booting from it?
- renatoc8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1He says we can fit DSL on a 64MB drive, no you cant, the download he gives you IS 50MB, but when you extract everything, it's 100MB.............
EDIT: Nevermind, it comes with a emulator.... The tutorial does not mention this however - drag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are numerious ways around that.
If your using something like 'Damn Small Linux' which is specificly desgined to be used on a flash drive they offer floppy disk images using syslinux that you can use to boot up your system on machines that don't support usb hdd or zip emulation. (I beleive)
Carrying around a floppy + usb drive isn't as sexy as just having a all singing all dancing Linux installed on a flash drive by itself, but it's not that bad either. You can probably keep a fat32 partitoin on your usb drive were you can keep a copy of rawrite (windows floppy image program) and the boot floppy images. That way you can make the boot floppies easily irregardless of were your at. - snuffulupagus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Puppy Linux is excellent - I'm not sure if you can put the image directly on the USB stick, but booting from CD is very simple and changes no settings on your computer.
- eruant, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Why can't someone just give us a single folder to put on the drive. That would save most of the tutorial!!!
- drag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0you downloaded the wrong version.
DSL offers multiple images..
A embedded version for running DSL in a qemu emulated environment in either Windows or Linux.
A vmx version for running in a Vmware player emulated environment (faster).
A isolinux iso image for burning a DSL linux cdrom.
A syslinux iso image for burning a DSL linux cdrom for very old machines were isolinux won't work.
A frugal-install script for installing from a tomsrbtrt floppy.
To install DSL on a USB stick you burn a DSL linux cdrom, boot it up, right click ont he desktop, select apps, select tools, and then choose what type of usb install you want. (usb-zip or usb-hdd depending on your bios support)
Actually the file system used for DSL is closer to 200 megs. However it's installed on a compressed read-only file system which takes up just 50 megs on your disk. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1any way to boot off a jump drive, without destroying all the other files on it? partition it? ?
- LogicX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What I would really like to see is someone figure out how to boot ISOs off a thumb drive.
no -- I'm not talking about things such as the CUSTOM knoppix method, where you're booting a mini in-ram FS, and then loading the ISO --
I want to drop a bunch of ISOs in a dir on a thumbdrive, (keeping the thumbdrive fat32 or NTFS) --
and then boot off it, and have a choice as to which linux live CD I'd like to continue booting into.
This would eliminate the need to burn a new CD everytime a new version comes out, and with thumb drives getting bigger and bigger, you could carry a bunch around with you on a single thumb drive. - whiterajah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1While I love the idea of being able to boot into my own, private, secure customized desktop on any computer, I wonder how useful this is really? In the scenarios in which you would most like to be able to boot from your own USB drive, I'm guessing you couldn't.
The prime example is an Internet cafe - they usually have software on a Windows installation that monitors how long you've been using the system. Other semi-public computers are generally locked down in one way or another (e.g. university / work computers). All that's left is the computer at your friend's place - and I wonder if they're going to like you booting up some mysterious other OS on their system?
Anyone got feedback on the practical uses of these things? - MrDoolie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How did you get them both on there together? Enquiring minds want to know.
- MrDoolie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Practical uses? I design websites. With Puppy Linux+NVU+ whatever files I need on my Thumbdrive I can go to a client's place, borrow his computer and work on pages with him right there to approve them before I add them to the site. If he has any new pictures or whatever I can add them to the project then and there.
A portable linux-in-your-pocket is also great for doing system repairs and computer lessons; my other part-time job.
Shameless Plug For Puppy Linux:
Since the entire OS is in three files that are not touched in any way and all changes are saved to a single easily deletable file I can say "Here, you try it" to a student and nothing can get messed up. You can "bugger it all up" and nothing is really being destroyed. Just don't save the session when you reboot/shut down. If the changes did get saved just delete that one file.
. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now I can use 128mb usb thumb drive for something usefull =)
- mvrck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1DSL has been around for a while. I am surprised so many people did not know about it until now.
Anyway, DSL did not work on my 256mb USB stick (generic brand). It seems only certain USB drives have boot sectors that allow themselves to be bootable. In that case I guess it would be best to buy the drive from the DSL guys and support them. - inactive, on 01/11/2008, -2/+1That's great find
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http://health.jurugan.com - digitalcassette, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1diggcellent!
- r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Eggggggggscellent!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2If he's even smarter, he would actually sell the pen drives with all that pre-installed in one nice package. I'd pay the retail of the pen drive, plus say $30-50 for the "service"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1Cool I'm looking forward to using this.
- hombrelobo, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3Well, it got 1100 diggs, it wasn't that bad I hope ..... but I liked this one, that's why I sent it to digg to.
- shucklak, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3This is not news at all, no Digg. Linux on USB storage devices has been available for quite some time.
- trogdoor, on 10/12/2007, -26/+5"This is better than my own article on how to run via VMWare"
Yes - hombrelobo, on 10/12/2007, -39/+6This is better than my own article on how to run via VMWare: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Running_any_Linux_in_Windows_without_a_CD-ROM_(for_free)
Very interesting.
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