[Gllug] Re: Bootable pen drives again

Andy Farnsworth farnsaw at stonedoor.com
Tue Feb 13 01:00:41 UTC 2007


Christopher Currie wrote:
> On  Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:42:01 +0100 (CET)
>  salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Many thanks. Spot on. It looks impressive, but at 79 Euros it should be. 
> Though they charge 44 euros for the download version of Mandriva Discovery, 
> so the stick is not all that more.
>
> But ' take it everywhere and make any desktop your own!' seems a bit much, 
> given the problems with BIOS and USB booting that have been discussed here.
>   
<snip>

 This is something I might be interested in but what I really want is a 
2.0 Gb USB Flash Drive that has 802.11g wifi built in and have it come 
preloaded with Linux and includes drivers for the wifi card.

Andy
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