Slack on a stick
February 16th, 2007 | by Futt | 231 views
Ever since I got my 1gb Kingston USB stick, I’ve been wanting to install Linux on it. Well I got bored the other day and figured I’d have a look around for viable options. I settled for slax, the miniature Live CD version of Slackware (the ISO clocks in at around 192MB). I settled for Slax because it’s small, has KDE on it, and has a nice installer thingy that will setup Isolinux/Lilo on the USB stick for you - no fiddling required.
Another nice thing about Slax is that it will not destroy your USB stick. One of the major weaknesses of solid state USB storage is that most of them have a limited number of write-cycles, so things like system logs and other heavy disk io will quickly destroy it. Slax can be run with the USB stick write-protected, using ramdisk to store your settings and data. When the time comes to shut down you get the option to sync the changes you’ve made to the stick.
So now I have my own portable pocket-linux!
3 Responses to “Slack on a stick”
Oooh, think I’ll have a whirl at that myself…I’m in the mood for exploring new toys lately. :)
Interesting theme have mentioned. With pleasure I shall support.
And in general, good blog
Should have got Ubuntu.