I need an OS that will run off a flash drive.
I used to run something called "Tiny XP Beast Edition" on a virtual box. There's also Damn Small Linux (
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) but the site is down right now apparently. It is designed to run on flash drives though.
I wouldn't saw this is Windows specific because it's not possible to run windows off a flash drive. Anyway, go ahead and try out SLAX (
http://www.slax.org). If you're into pen testing and server security, try out BackTrack3 (
www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html). both are based on Slackware linux but are easy to use. The cool thing about SLAX is that at the download page, you can get rid of what packages you don't want so you have exactly what you want. Hope this helped!
EDIT: Also, with SLAX, just click on add more modules in the "build SLAX" page. That way you can add exactly what you want and you have your own customized little SLAX system
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I tried tiny xp beast but could not get it to work. is there a special step needed to get it to work?
(10-04-2009, 05:12 PM)joey23art Wrote: [ -> ]I tried tiny xp beast but could not get it to work. is there a special step needed to get it to work?
You do of course have to make your flash drive bootable...
http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/20...-driv.html
Seems like that could be helpful for you.
(10-04-2009, 05:16 PM)Neo Wrote: [ -> ] (10-04-2009, 05:12 PM)joey23art Wrote: [ -> ]I tried tiny xp beast but could not get it to work. is there a special step needed to get it to work?
You do of course have to make your flash drive bootable...
http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/20...-driv.html
Seems like that could be helpful for you.
That might help!
On the hp link it says that page is gone
(10-04-2009, 05:18 PM)skunkmonster Wrote: [ -> ]You can install Vista and windows 7 from a flash drive, have a read of this blog to get a good idea of what is needed:
Creating Bootable Vista / Windows 7 USB Flash Drive
I still wouldn't recommend it. Vista and 7 are pretty big. They also have some big requirements so if he goes and boots it on older computers, it's gonna run bad. At least SLAX or BT will run fast on stuff from even the 90's.
Well, if it could work, you could always consider running Windows XP Pro with SP3.
It may not be new, but it is dependable and very customisable and it works very well!
Also, on a new installation, it takes up about 2 GB, give or take,
but when you can get USB sticks of 8 GB maybe to 16 GB, then maybe that
wouldn't need to be such a problem.
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Many Linux editions will run of a memory stick, give them a go as they are legal and will do most of what you will need.