[SGVLUG] recommendation for booting USB drive

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 8/28/06, Claude Felizardo <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any recommendations for a small but mostly useful distro to install
> onto a USB thumb drive?  I'm partial to Mandriva but figure I don't
> need a fancy GUI for a rescue disk.
>
> Wife needed a USB thumb drive to bring some stuff to work and staples
> had a Memorex 512 MB drive for $15 and a 1 GB drive for $25, NO
> REBATES!   A 64 MB drive would have been sufficient but at the price I
> picked up the 512 for her and figured I'd try the 1GB and see about
> putting Linux on it.  They also have a 2 GB but didn't want to spend
> that much.  I had scanned the Sunday paper ads and while other stores
> had them for less, I didn't want to bother with any rebates, long
> lines or wait for shipping.

Damb small linux has a GUI and everything in 50mb I think they have a
slightly ~128MB version for Thumb drives, based on debian.