oopsilon.com — An article to show you how to boot linux from flash. Most motherboard BIOSes have the ability to boot from a Flash device, and there's no other medium which is easily available in the sizes required. So the choice was obvious: copy the operating system there.
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cryptocomOct 10, 2007
Exactly....and DSL even provides a method of booting your flash drive OS even if your mobo doesn't support it. It's a floppy image you can download that redirects the boot sequence from the 3.5 floppy to the flash drive.DSL rules.:)
mccordOct 10, 2007
rtfa, it is explained why he doesn't want a harddrive in the first 2 paragraphs...
Closed AccountOct 11, 2007
Actually the author goes through great detail (the first 3 paragraphs) to explain that he is looking for a quiet system. So your "point" might be that you want Linux but Imran Nazar's point is clearly that the goal is to have a "quiet as possible", "truly silent" and "non-spinning medium" solution.