[SATLUG] Fedora Core 6 on Flash Drive

[Alan L. Lesmerises]

I have seen flash drives as big as 8GB lately, so you may not be as space limited as all that.  Also, wouldn't an external USB hard-drive do the same thing, with a lot more capacity?

Johnny V wrote:
> Its been a few years since ive seen an installation of any kind of
> linux. So this saturday i was going to head up to the install fest and
> try to have fedora core 6 installed on my laptop. Only thing is I
> noticed yall recommended not dual booting with vista which is what my
> laptop came with. So I was wondering if it would be possible to get
> fedora installed on a flash drive and just boot from it manually
> whenever I needed it.  One concern I had was that if I did that option
> was that I wouldnt have enough space for what I need. I need to have it
> run a webserver with apache/mysql/php for a webpaging course im taking.
> Plus I was told by a couple people that linux on a flash drive is
> worthless...  What do you guys/gals think?
>