[Gllug] Bootable pen drives again

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Sun, February 11, 2007 14:20, Christopher Currie wrote:
> There have been various threads about USB, U3, and Kingston Data Travelers
> in
> the last three weeks. I've now attempted to install, using four Data
> Traveler
> 2GB sticks, the following Linux/Unix distros on them. Would be glad of
> comments from the experience of others.
>
> (( I didn't know the following [quoted by Eric Veen referring here):
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php#harddrive
> "SysLinux will not work (and will refuse to install) on filesystems with a
> cluster size of more than 16K (typically means a filesystem of more than 1
> GB.)"']
>
> In fact it did seem to work on the 2GB sticks and did not refuse, and that
> didn't seem to be the cause of the problems I had. Or was it?))


You might want to check this out:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Mandriva-Flash-Available-41825.shtml

"Mandriva Flash is a pre-installed Mandriva Linux distribution on a simple
2GB USB flash drive."

Gabriel.


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