Thread: Anyone here running Linux from a USB drive?
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Old 07-09-2010, 11:09 PM   #56
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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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Googling it turns up one person (here) running that kind of rig with Damn Small Linux and two people running Debian (here) and (here). Good luck trying to get it work, though. Sounds like a challenge.
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