On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 08:56 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > > > On 28/04/07, TheVeech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just got myself a 160gb WD Passport USB HDD for my laptop, so I've > > freed > > > up my 2gb pendrive and I'm looking around for what to do to run a > > fully > > > functioning distro (doesn't have to be Ubuntu) with a home > > partition on > > > it. Anyone had a go at this? > > > > > Have a go with Damn Small Linux. It has an option to install to > > usb. > > Also because it is debian based you should be familiar with how it > > works. > ... > You might also want to try Flashlinux (flashlinux.org). It's designed > not to kill your usb key with a special filesystem, but its for 256MB > keys, and hasn't been updated in a while. Although, you can get it > working on larger keys.
Thanks. Looking at a few of the distros available, it seems the instructions are quite similar and there's quite a lot of choice. I came across these, which look like good starting points: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveUSB http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ For Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent As usual, there's countless UbuntuForums (http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php) threads on this, too. For just using portable software on a pendrive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_portable_software -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
