[ILUG-BOM] challenge: customise ubuntu basic system to run from USB

[jtd]

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.

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Rgds
JTD