Linux on a thumbdrive?

[Thrax]

I got a neato bootable USB2 Transcend Jetflash thumbdrive (256mb) for Christmas, and I want to goof around with Linux on it or otherwise put some bootable thing on it just to see it work in that capacity.

Anyone know of good, compact, thumbdrive-oriented Linux distros?

[entropy]

ZipSlack (http://www.slackware.com/zipslack/) possibly. It's meant for ZIP drives, but I see no reason why it can't work on a bootable jump drive.

I was meaning to try it on my ZIP drive, but of course I couldn't find any ZIP disks and didn't feel like buying one :rolleyes:

[Thrax]

I took a look at zipslack (First place I looked), but from the isntallation, it didn't seem like it'd work on a thumb drive.. Anyone know otherwise?

[primesuspect]

I don't know about linux on thumbdrives, thrax... but I do know one thing:


THRAX HATES LINUX

;D

[tefleming]

you could look into 98lite
http://www.litepc.com/
free demo available

[Thrax]

Yes he does.. But it's one of those things I <b>have</b> to know if I'm ever going into IT. Love it or hate it, it's a requirement. :(

[shwaip]

www.damnsmalllinux.org

I'm sure you can search their forum, but here what I found after ~ a minute looking around.

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=17;t=3956

[Thrax]

Thanks Shwaip :D

[beatz]

Hi!

There's also a gentoo based distro specifically for 256mb sticks. http://encryptec.net/

Looks promising if you like gnome ; ).

Michael