[NTLUG:Discuss] Installing Linux on USB Disks?

[Rick Cook]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 09:16, Stan Gatchel wrote:
> I found this interesting article about preloading Linux on USB disks. I
> was just wondering, if I bought a blank USB disk and tried to install
> Linux, would it work? Has anyone done this? Does it show in Grub? What
> happens when the disk is unmounted? What happens if you mount it on a
> different machine? What hardware similarities are required for it to run?
>
> Maybe this is a way to test new distributions.. just partition a USB
> disk? Can it be that easy?  ;-)
>
> http://people.ofset.org/~ckhung/a/c073.en.php
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stan

Stan,

If you want to do this the "easy" way and are not too terribly picky about 
which distribution you use, Mandriva is selling a 2 Gb USB drive with 
Mandriva pre-installed. I have no idea how well this actually works - I have 
just seen the sales blurbs.

For more info:

    http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007/node_3481


Rick