Installing Linux to a 4gb usb microdrive

[Jon Pruente]

On Jan 10, 2008 12:53 PM, Oren Beck <orenbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last night I got an Excalibur EXC4:4 gb usb microdrive .
> At $19.99 it was a must buy of sorts.
> One intended assignment is a portable bootable Linux drive.
> Anyone want to show off their "Least Steps" methods to install Puppy or
> other small Linux onto this?
> Both for someone who does NOT have a linux box and /or from Kubuntu 7.04.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> --
> Oren Beck
>
> 816.729.3645

If the mobo supports booting form USB-HDD, you should be able to just
format it like normal and use it and just set the BOIS to use it as a
boot device.  From what little I've done of USB booting it's not the
hodge-podge nightmare it used to be in the early days.

Jon.