Thread: Anyone here running Linux from a USB drive?
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Old 07-09-2010, 06:41 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by frabjous View Post
I've killed some time today playing around with some lightweight Linux distros. The test is whether or not I could load the thing on to a USB drive, boot from the USB with a short boot time (it needed to be noticeably shorter than my usual Ubuntu load time), and get online with a decent Web Browser, with sound working. Another trick is that I'm using my laptop in the Barnes and Noble cafe, and hence need wireless support out of the box, and can't require access to anything not on the USB. I'm sad to report that many of the above failed the test on my hardware.

The winners so far are xPUD, Puppy Linux, and CrunchBang lite (based on Ubuntu), all of which passed. Using Crunchbang right now in fact.
I have an old Toshiba Tecra 5XX CDT, with a WI-FI PCMCIA card. I'm trying to find a disto that can support that OS. I tried Ubuntu and Xbuntu but both did not work because the BIOS on the Tecra was not supported.

I think it does have a USB, but I don't think it can boot from it.
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