Last night I got an Excalibur EXC4:4 gb usb microdrive . At $19.99 it was a must buy of sorts. One intended assignment is a portable bootable Linux drive. Anyone want to show off their "Least Steps" methods to install Puppy or other small Linux onto this? Both for someone who does NOT have a linux box and /or from Kubuntu 7.04.
Thanks in advance
On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 PM, Oren Beck orenbeck@gmail.com wrote:
Last night I got an Excalibur EXC4:4 gb usb microdrive . At $19.99 it was a must buy of sorts. One intended assignment is a portable bootable Linux drive. Anyone want to show off their "Least Steps" methods to install Puppy or other small Linux onto this? Both for someone who does NOT have a linux box and /or from Kubuntu 7.04.
Thanks in advance
-- Oren Beck
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If the mobo supports booting form USB-HDD, you should be able to just format it like normal and use it and just set the BOIS to use it as a boot device. From what little I've done of USB booting it's not the hodge-podge nightmare it used to be in the early days.
Jon.
You should be using Kubuntu 7.10 for one thing over 7.04. I had problems with 7.04 and the one before. The last good one for me was 6.06.1 LTS.
http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm
Boot from a LiveCD of Puppy, from "Setup" menu you will find an entry called "Puppy Universal Installer". Select that, and follow the simple instructions. or Boot from a LiveCD of Puppy, use ISOMaster and extract the 3 files: initrd.gz, vmlinuz and pup_xxx.sfs. Copy those to your USB drive manually. You will probably have to mount the drive first. ( http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm ) Follow the caveats and stuff. They recommend this method only for an upgrade of an existing USB Puppy system.
On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 PM, Oren Beck <> wrote:
Last night I got an Excalibur EXC4:4 gb usb microdrive . At $19.99 it was a must buy of sorts. One intended assignment is a portable bootable Linux drive. Anyone want to show off their "Least Steps" methods to install Puppy or other small Linux onto this? Both for someone who does NOT have a linux box and /or from Kubuntu 7.04.
Thanks in advance
-- Oren Beck
What about the limitation on how many times you can delete information before the device wears out (thinking of things like the /tmp and /var partitions/directories)?
Brian Kelsay ripcrd@gmail.com wrote: You should be using Kubuntu 7.10 for one thing over 7.04. I had problems with 7.04 and the one before. The last good one for me was 6.06.1 LTS.
http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm
Boot from a LiveCD of Puppy, from "Setup" menu you will find an entry called "Puppy Universal Installer". Select that, and follow the simple instructions. or Boot from a LiveCD of Puppy, use ISOMaster and extract the 3 files: initrd.gz, vmlinuz and pup_xxx.sfs. Copy those to your USB drive manually. You will probably have to mount the drive first. ( http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm ) Follow the caveats and stuff. They recommend this method only for an upgrade of an existing USB Puppy system.
On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 PM, Oren Beck <> wrote: Last night I got an Excalibur EXC4:4 gb usb microdrive . At $19.99 it was a must buy of sorts. One intended assignment is a portable bootable Linux drive. Anyone want to show off their "Least Steps" methods to install Puppy or other small Linux onto this? Both for someone who does NOT have a linux box and /or from Kubuntu 7.04.
Thanks in advance
There's info out there on how to prevent excessive writes. Google for Linux on a CF.
http://pendrivelinux.com/ In Linux disable the swap and use the no atime option in your fstab. Turn off logging or log to a remote server. Brian
On Jan 10, 2008 2:15 PM, James Sissel jimsissel@yahoo.com wrote:
What about the limitation on how many times you can delete information before the device wears out (thinking of things like the /tmp and /var partitions/directories)?
*Brian Kelsay <>* wrote:
You should be using Kubuntu 7.10 for one thing over 7.04. I had problems with 7.04 and the one before. The last good one for me was 6.06.1 LTS.
http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm
Boot from a LiveCD of Puppy, from "Setup" menu you will find an entry called "Puppy Universal Installer". Select that, and follow the simple instructions. or Boot from a LiveCD of Puppy, use ISOMaster and extract the 3 files: initrd.gz, vmlinuz and pup_xxx.sfs. Copy those to your USB drive manually. You will probably have to mount the drive first. ( http://puppylinux.com/flash-puppy.htm ) Follow the caveats and stuff. They recommend this method only for an upgrade of an existing USB Puppy system.
On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 PM, Oren Beck <> wrote:
Last night I got an Excalibur EXC4:4 gb usb microdrive . At $19.99 it was a must buy of sorts. One intended assignment is a portable bootable Linux drive. Anyone want to show off their "Least Steps" methods to install Puppy or other small Linux onto this? Both for someone who does NOT have a linux box and /or from Kubuntu 7.04 .
Thanks in advance
-- Oren Beck
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