Linux on a stick

[Jose]

I use PCLINUX and even then I had to install using an iso I found on
the, as it wouldn't load using the traditional way

Daniel Wayne Armstrong wrote:
> On 10/16/07, Andrew Cowie <andrew-2KHxOkysSnqmy7d5DmSz6TlRY1/6cnIP at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:22 -0400, James Knott wrote:
>>     
>>> http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-usb-bar
>>>       
>> This summer I found myself using a USB key to bootstrap a new laptop
>> intended to run Gentoo. It worked surprisingly well. The end result was
>> using something called extlinux as a bootloader for ext2 filesystems,
>> and a Gentoo LiveCD image (which doubles as their install media).
>> http://research.operationaldynamics.com/blogs/andrew/software/gentoo-linux/usb-bootstrap.html
>>
>>     
>
> This past weekend I did a usb-boot install of Debian on a Thinkpad
> X31... It was a bit of a challenge to correctly setup the usb-stick,
> but I finally got it to work...
>
> Thanks for the heads-up about extlinux/syslinux! The docs on the
> website describe a much more generic setup that I can use to boot and
> install other *.iso images in the future...
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