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Topic: Something that I'm sure has been tried before, DSL on a USB Pen Drive< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Sep. 30 2004,01:04 QUOTE

First time poster here!  Woohoo!  Anyway, I came upon this site a few days ago and this little OS fascinates me.  Being able to personalize an OS from the ground up is a very interesting concept and I think I'd like to at least give it a shot.  My question pertains to USB pen drives.  Would it be possible to install DSL on say a 512 or 1 GB pen drive and actually run it?  Would the read/write rates be ok with that?  Reason I ask is it would be incredible if I could do this and be able to basically plug and play my own little personalized OS on any computer I happen to be around.  Like my subject line says I'm sure this has at least been tried before and I was hoping I could get some feedback or opinions on this concept and if it would work or not.  Thanks in advance!

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Posted: Sep. 30 2004,01:14 QUOTE

yes, but you dont want to do a "normal" install, as this would quite literally eat the drive.

you can do a Frugal Install to a usb pen, compact flash card, etc.

frugal doesn't write to the drives nearly as much therefore sparing the solid-state storage some a lot of wear and tear.

in the menu it's Apps>>Tool>>Install to Pendrive

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EDITUS: corrected location of the pendrive install script.


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