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The Quiet OS

Not to mention compact

March 21, 2005 6:37:53 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Does anyone have the skinny on a good operating system for PC that runs exclusively from ram or from a flash disk? This could be great for my laptop because battery time is precious, and craptastic when that harddrive gets-a-movin'.
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Reply #1 March 21, 2005 7:19:39 PM
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Damn-Small-Linux http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/usb.html
Jafo recommends this one a lot. Haven't tried it myself yet.
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Reply #2 March 21, 2005 10:21:33 PM
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I lean on the cheap side, so buying a 128mb boot drive when I have a 256 key at home makes no sense to me. I have heard that there are ways to roll your own usb boot from live cd distros. Anything on that?
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Reply #3 March 21, 2005 11:08:46 PM
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Uhm, maybe I'm missing something, but if it will fit on a 128MB drive, don't you think it might fit on one twice that size?
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Reply #4 March 22, 2005 12:13:43 AM
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 Citizen Shotgun989 ...DSL fits on a mini CD....max size 50 meg....I have it on a standard CD...cost...about 30 cents....can't get much cheaper/easier than that...
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Reply #5 March 22, 2005 8:58:43 AM
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Size is no problem for me. I have no worries about this thing fitting. The booting is the part that worries me. I have used DSL from CD and it works fine. But being the nerd that I am, being able to have that little USB bootable Linux just makes my day. I have heard that the process involves loading the kernel on to the disk and then making it some files to boot from. Noobed again.
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Reply #6 March 22, 2005 5:58:55 PM
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I would have thought that getting a system to boot from a USB source just requires that to be set in preferences in your Bios....otherwise the hardware will attempt to boot from your primary HD anyway.

Booting from a CD requires that set as first preference ahead of 'C'....the same will apply with an USB device....

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Reply #7 March 22, 2005 7:43:20 PM
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damn small linux is awsome! i run it from a cd, can't find where it says anything about flash disks in my bios.
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Reply #8 March 22, 2005 8:51:34 PM
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It won't say "Flash Drive". Depending on your BIOS it may say "USB Device" or "External Device" Set that as the first boot device and you should be good to go.
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Reply #9 March 22, 2005 9:46:48 PM
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I'll give that a whack. Who know? It might just work.
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Reply #10 March 27, 2005 9:27:39 PM
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I forgot to mention, i found an awsome os that fits on a single floppy! it is called menuetOS. i just can't set it up properly, google it to find it.
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Reply #11 March 27, 2005 9:30:54 PM
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U can put DSL on a flash drive by going into the menu and going into apps, and then you have to snoop around to find an option to put it on a flash drive. but you first have to mount your drive as writable.
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