[SATLUG] Fedora Core 6 on Flash Drive

[Al Castanoli]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:58 -0500, 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?

For flash drive installs, I normally use Knoppix 5.1 CD (not the
DVD)[1], and if you have enough RAM (at least 1536 MB), adding the toram
statement in the GRUB bootloader menu.  It works fine without loading it
all onto a RAMdisk, but I find it runs faster from RAM than off the
flash drive.

Take a look at http://www.knoppix.org for more info on Knoppix.
         
[1]
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V5.1.0CD-2006-12-30-EN.iso                             

Al Castanoli