On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 21:01 -0700, James McKenzie wrote:
> On 2/5/11 5:31 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 10:30 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 02/05/2011 06:43 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>> The only Linux you might get going on small memory machines is DSL (Damn
Small
>>>> Linux), although there are at least two other tiny distros out I
haven't tried.
>>> Puppy will work with as little as (I think) 32 Meg. I know it works
>>> Just Fine on one of my old laptops with 96 Meg.
>> If you go to:
>>
>>
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net
>>
>> You can download unetbootin a program which will let you download about
>> 50 versions of Linux and BSD Unix onto a usb drive, Damn Small Linux is
>> one of them. Actually there are multiple versions of about 25 unixes and
>> Linuxs.. Very easy to use. You must also install p7zip which is in the
>> Fedora repos.
> Will this work with a system that cannot boot off of the USB device or
> do I need to build out a CD that will fire up the internal USB 1.1 hub
> and then boot off of the USB device?
>
> James McKenzie
>
I suspect you would have to use the second method for booting.