Resources for “USB Pendrives and Distributions for Them”
April 25th, 2006 by Juan Marcelo Rodriguez in
SLAX: www.slax.linux-live.org
Flash Linux: www.flashlinux.org.uk
Unification Filesystem: www.unionfs.org
SLAX Modules: slax.linux-live.org/modules.php
SLAX Packages: slax.linux-live.org/installed_packages.txt
Another article I wrote about Slax: os.newsforge.com/os/05/07/08/1522251.shtml
Makebootfat: advancemame.sourceforge.net
SysLinux: www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
Excellent Essay about UnionFS: www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/unionfs-tos/unionfs.html
A Real Case of Clusters Made with UnionFs: sole.infis.univ.ts.it/~chri/hopeless.html
Linux USB Project: www.linux-usb.org
Linux Journal Article about UnionFS: /article/7714
Feather Linux: featherlinux.berlios.de
Puppy Linux: www.goosee.com/puppy
Slackware Linux: www.slackware.org
Gentoo Linux: www.gentoo.org
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GRUB
On December 9th, 2006 Anonymous (not verified) says:
What is the Grub equivalent of the lilo -M /dev/sda instruction that you have in your article?
pen distros
On August 16th, 2006 Norman H. Azadian (not verified) says:
This all looked good until I actually tried to use it.
The DSL is nice, but has no driver for the ethernet in my Dell Latitude D510 laptop. Scratch one distro.
Flash Linux is, well, flashy. However, it doesn't support the keyboard in my laptop, but that problem can be worked around by plugging in an external USB keyboard. The real problem is that it has neither make nor gcc, which means it is impossible to install new Perl modules, which means that it is useless. Scratch another distro.
SLAX also has neither make nor gcc, although it claims to have both. BTW, JFS didn't work for me, but XFS is OK. Some parts of the saving/restoring actually work, but there is a kernel bug with the unionfs. I could live with all that, but the lack of make renders Perl useless. Scratch another distro.
FeatherLinux also has no make. Another one bites the dust.
Just for jollies I also tried FreeBSD release 6.1, but my laptop always comes up with a RAM parity error while booting. :-(
NHA
slax pen distro
On April 1st, 2007 Mark G. (not verified) says:
I tried a couple of pendrivelinuxes.
The one I liked the best is slax because of its
modularity.
I wanted gcc and TeX, which didn't come on the
default. Also ntfs rw.
All you have to do actually is to go to slax
modules page and download the appropriate modules.
For gcc et al, the simplest would be
Official_Development_Module*.mod
because it has not only gcc but also all the necessary
header files, make, etc.
Then all you have to do is put these *.mod in
/modules
directory
they'll be installed at boot time
Mark
>SLAX also has neither make
On November 26th, 2006 Guest (not verified) says:
>SLAX also has neither make nor gcc, although it claims to have both.
It does have them, but as a separate development module.
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