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Old 27-07-2007, 01:49 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Recently bought a 4GB Kingston Data traveller Pen drive.I was thinking of installing Linux on it.So which distro should be used?I will be using it for surfing the net & listening to songs.
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Old 27-07-2007, 04:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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what's better than SLAX?
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Slax has problem such as outdated modules.

If you want to use it as your own portable OS then either go for PC Linux OS MiniMe or Dream Linux.

I m using PCLinux OS MiniMe on my External HD. It boots from the HD & takes about 2 GB of harddisk space with swap partition included. With latest packages installed Via synaptic it is a total of 2.5 GB HD space.

Or you can use Zenwalk Core & install only those packages which u require keeping the size small.
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now wouldn't it be wise to suggest something that take 100-200 Mb for Pendrive......
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PCLinux OS MiniMe installes in 500 MB.

Zenwalk core is 230 MB + Packages.
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i would suggest not to install any operating system on pen drive.

and look saurav is using hdd not pen drive.
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i would suggest not to install any operating system on pen drive.

and look saurav is using hdd not pen drive.
Why?
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Why?
here is the reason...
dont install OS on flash drive/damn small linux corrupted flash drive
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it is expected that some pendrive's life gets reduced by using linux distros?due to freq read/write
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it is expected that some pendrive's life gets reduced by using linux distros?due to freq read/write
i dint exactly mean only linux OS... any software will also do that... which does simultaneous read and write operation alternatively.
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^Is it ok to use portable apps which are optimised for pen drive?
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^^ any app which does freq read and write ops is detrimental to the flash drive's life.
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