2008/3/27, Christos Nouskas <nouskas@gmail.com>:
Damir Perisa wrote:
i have a no-optical-drive laptop (non-macs are not able to boot from firewire cdroms) and usually i prepare a image to put on a memory-stick to boot from [1]. since this setting (no cdrom) are getting more common and having a live-linux-system on a usb-key is getting interesting i'm wondering if we should provide also a partition image[2] for such use?
I've been using FaunOS (http://www.faunos.com/) for a couple of months now, and my opinion can only be described as excellent. It's a live archlinux system focused on booting from detachable usb media, fits in a 1GB stick, does a wonderful job in hardware detection (I tested it in 3 different machines), saves all changes back to the usb stick, suspends to usb and it's FAAAAAST! Wherever I can't take my arch-laptop, I take my usb stick!
Hm, it has an interesting frontend to pacman - PacTrac. I especially like the dependency tree: http://www.faunos.com/images/ver-0.5.4-stable/pactrac-install.png -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)