Showing posts with label portable linux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label portable linux. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Bulding a Light, Full Featured Linux Portable USB

Ever needed to help someone fix their Windows computer that won't boot?

Ever wanted access to your own email, bookmarks, or applications?

Perhaps you want a persistant operating system on a USB flash drive... this is part one of an experiment I am doing. Step one for me is to decide on a build of Linux to run from flash memory. Step two is to try an put that into practice on the USB storage of the HTC Desire Android phone.

Problem with the Android phone is the USB storage doen't seem to wake up fast enough for the boot loader on my laptop to pick it up. I'll work on that later...

For now, I want to practice setting up a build. I have a 4GB SanDisk Cruiser Blade flash drive I picked up for about $7 from Office Works. It's small and light and should suit the key ring fine.

Use information found here at your own risk!!

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