On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 21:01 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
On 2/5/11 5:31 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:30 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 02/05/2011 06:43 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> The only Linux you might get going on small memory machines is DSL (Damn
Small
>>> Linux), although there are at least two other tiny distros out I haven't
tried.
>> Puppy will work with as little as (I think) 32 Meg. I know it works
>> Just Fine on one of my old laptops with 96 Meg.
> If you go to:
>
>
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net
>
> You can download unetbootin a program which will let you download about
> 50 versions of Linux and BSD Unix onto a usb drive, Damn Small Linux is
> one of them. Actually there are multiple versions of about 25 unixes and
> Linuxs.. Very easy to use. You must also install p7zip which is in the
> Fedora repos.
Will this work with a system that cannot boot off of the USB device or
do I need to build out a CD that will fire up the internal USB 1.1 hub
and then boot off of the USB device?
James McKenzie
I suspect you would have to use the second method for booting.
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