[NTLUG:Discuss] Installing Linux on USB Disks?

[Rodney Loos]

On 3/20/07, Rick Cook <rickcook at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 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?


I haven't done it with a full distro, but I've created a linux rescue USB
memory stick using the instructions from this web site:

http://www.sysresccd.org/Howto_install-usb-stick

I couldn't boot all my computers from it, but one that let me specify to
boot from USB in the bios worked pretty well.  Since I booted from it, I
didn't try unmounting it while it was running. I would assume this would
work as well with a USB drive as with a memory stick.

Rodney