[Lincs] Linux Apps that run from a USB drive

Pete Hunt pete at ninjafriendly.com
Wed Dec 15 18:57:46 GMT 2004


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Ben Francis wrote:
| Pete Hunt wrote:
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|> Has anyone come across any linux based toys / utils that work especially
|> well from USB thumb drives?  I'm looking at this from a sysadmin / data
|> recovery / mini pen-test perspective, but any suggestions welcome.
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| Knoppix?
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| Someone made a version which will boot from a USB pen drive IIRC.
| Probably need support for booting from USB in the BIOS though...
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Yeah, I've tried Damn Small Linux (damnsmalllinux.org) from USB (~50MB).
It works well, but I think my usb drive will die if I use it a lot - the
read/writes will thrash it rather quickly.
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