Re: live Debian on USB stick

From: Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10(at)yahoo.es>
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 11:39:43 EDT

Gerard Robin wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:09:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

>>From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>>To: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>>Subject: Re: live Debian on USB stick

> 

>>On 08/15/07 03:30, Gerard Robin wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I installed knoppix on my USB stick and it runs fine but it's too big
>>> ~ 600 Mb. There are too many packages.
>>
>>Buy a bigger USB stick? They're not that expensive.
>>
>>> Is there a Debian dist, not as big as knoppix, that I can put on my USB
>>> stick ?
>>
>>How big is your USB stick?

> it's a 2 Gb, I have got enough space, but it's absurd to put on an USB
> stick a lot of packages that I never use or which need a lot of ram like
> openoffice.
> I installed slax (~ 200 Mb) but the boot failed when it detect the PCMCIA
> card ? knoppix is a very good job. (but too big :-))
> 

Hi Gerard,
Maybe I'm not understanding you correctly. If not, sorry. Why don't you install your knoppix on the usb drive and when all is working smoothly remove the packages you're not using?
I must be missing something, right?
Cheers,
Jonathan

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