I'm running Dyne2 from a USB drive. It boots from the drive on
machines that support USB drive boots, and I also carry a boot
floppy and CD just in case. The CD boot OS automagically finds the
USB dock on the USB drive and does the rest of the boot from there.

The only trouble, which is a soon to be fixed bug, hopefully in 2.2,
is that you can't write to a USB nest or build an SDK system. I
solve this temporarily for the nest, by copying the nest image from
the USB drive to the hard drive and rebooting, then copy it back
before I exit Dyne2.

A little bit of a hassle, but I've got a portable system.

(Also note that in 2.1 your USB drive/key needs to be formatted as
FAT32)

It also boots from a USB key, which is good if you want a light
system where all your dyne modules are for system analysis or some
other specialised functions. Of course the standard CD will fit on a
1GB key with some extra room for copying a nest image.

When 2.2 arrives, we should get a writable USB nest and be able to
format with ext2/3. A writable nest will allow one to install extras
to /root/bin on the USB drive or you can have some fun and SDK.

Ah don't like it, Ah love it.

I wonder if I can get XGL/Compiz working this month. That'll blow
the other sock off all my Win user friends.

Actually, if you can boot from a 4GB+ USB drive you can install any
version of Linux. I have Ubuntu 6.06 and SLED 10 working as you
suggest. But these do require a P3 and 256MB RAM, something Dyne and
GRML don't need.

temp8736@??? wrote:
> Grml does something that dB does not, I believe. It can eliminate the
> live CD. The dB way is, carry a live CD plus USB pen. Grml can do
> that, but also one better: Install it to a $100/80GB/2.5"/USB hard
> drive, run normal Debian.
>
> So life is apt-get install, apt-get remove, apt-get upgrade, and the
> thing boots anywhere. The goodness is that there's only one device, no
> CD trickery, and more space for apps and media.
>
> Worth investigation :-))
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