[Nottingham] Linux on a key

[Iain Lennon]

On Saturday 01 Oct 2005 00:34, Simon wrote:
> On 9/30/05, Iain Moppett <Iain.Moppett at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > At risk of starting a distro flamewar, can any one profer any advice for
> > which distro is best to run as a live system off a USB key? I previously
> > struggled with getting Mandrake to run on my Dell Laptop (monitor, sleep
> > / lid close etc) and went back to Windows :(
> >

I've had some success with damnsmalllinux, using their "5-way install script"
but I still haven't been able to set it to use the whole key just yet

I've found laptops seem to boot best with it. A number of desktop systems 
detect the key in their boot menus,  but will not boot off it.
-- 
Iain Lennon
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