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Linux on USB
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:47 pm
by Zacariaz
Yesterday i had a talk with a budy of mine. He wanted to get in to linux, learn how to use it and so on. The problem is that he only has a laptop and no free space on his harddrive so i suggested installing a linux dist on his 8gb usb key. We tryed installing both debian and ubuntu, but at some point it failed. Now i can se severel reason why it failed but im starting to wonder if theres something im missing. Maybe you cant just install linux on an external device or...???
Re: Linux on USB
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:50 pm
by AndrewAPrice
Zacariaz wrote:but at some point it failed.
Can you be more specific? Where did it fail?
Zacariaz wrote:Maybe you cant just install linux on an external device or...???
Try
http://www.google.com/search?q=usb+linux.
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:10 pm
by Zacariaz
I failed during installation of the basic system. Its more like the cd-rom drive failed to restart after having been poweren down for a periode of time.
I know theres severel linux distributions designed for usb devices, but really, im a debian guy
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 9:13 am
by inflater
I installed Damn Small Linux to my 1/2 full 512MB USB drive. It looks a bit cheap though, but it can be useful when your system will crash.
Regards
inflater