Is there any specific reason to use Ubuntu? If not then you can try http://www.pendrivelinux.com/, which has HOWTOs with Puppy Linux and Knoppix.
For Fedora based systems, there is a tool called Kadischi which generates a customised live CD from a specified repository of RPMs. Kadischi is still in beta stage, but they are planning to make it capable of generating live USB devices and not only CDs.
Cheers, Debarshi
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 13:55, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
Is there any specific reason to use Ubuntu? If not then you can try http://www.pendrivelinux.com/, which has HOWTOs with Puppy Linux and Knoppix.
Cause puppy uses syslinux and fat32. While it is proly the only way to boot from dos, it is roundabout way and will miss the advances in grub. And u would not want a fat32 when u have superb filesystems on linux. I personally use reiserfs which i found to be fairly robust on powerloss. Considering that pendrives use flash, the jffs system which is specifically designed for flashrom should be even better for the robustness and reliability metrics. One other feature of jffs is wear levelling. But pendirves have a micon which is supposed to do that.
For Fedora based systems, there is a tool called Kadischi which generates a customised live CD from a specified repository of RPMs. Kadischi is still in beta stage, but they are planning to make it capable of generating live USB devices and not only CDs.
USB is no different from anything else except the boot part.
On 19/09/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote: I personally use reiserfs which i found to be fairly robust on powerloss. Considering that pendrives use flash, the jffs system which is specifically designed for flashrom should be even better for the robustness and reliability metrics. One other feature of jffs is wear levelling. But pendirves have a micon which is supposed to do that. thanks jtd for that info thanks a million.now my questions is that if I use ext2 and go with extlinux boot loader how will be the idea? and if I use reiserfs which boot loader must Iuse? and you mentioned jfs how will that be on my 256 or 512 mb pen drive? I don't have a floppy disk drive on my pc. if I have to install grub how will I do it? Krishnakant.
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