Distro for a 4GB flash drive

[Raccoon1400]

What distro would you people recommend for a flash drive. It will be used for everyday use for a couple months when we are at the cottage.

By the way, can you install mandriva on a flash drive without buying the mandriva flash drive with the recovery CD?

Looking at
mandriva
knoppix
faunOS
slax
open to other suggestions

[gameryoshi600]

This should be in other OS talk.
Damn small Linux, it only uses 50 MB
or Puppy Linux, it only uses 80 MB

[KingTermite]

this article: http://www.linux.com/feature/134670

and tutorials at this website:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

should point you in the right direction, hopefully.

I just bought an 8Gb pen drive and used the pdl tutorial to squash Ubuntu on it.

[Kingsley]

Pen Drive Linux is good.

[adamklempner]

I know that in PCLinuxOS Minime 2008 you can use the "Make Live USB" icon in the Utilities folder on the desktop to make a bootable flash drive. I have never actually tried it, but the option is there and it looks super simple.

[wannadumpwindows]

Pen Drive Linux is good.

+1 For Pen Drive Linux. They have tutorials for just about anything you would wanna put on a flash drive. It's kind of preference. I've ran Ubuntu for a while from a 4G on my EeePC. IT worked pretty well. But you can use just about any distro you want. As far as size and speed, Damn Small Linux is probably your best bet.

Damn Small Site
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

[Raccoon1400]

Is pen drive linux good for installing softare? Does it have good repos?
DSL and Puppy are too minimalist.

[gameryoshi600]

Is pen drive linux good for installing softare? Does it have good repos?
DSL and Puppy are too minimalist.

then use the pen drive linux tutorials.

[wannadumpwindows]

Is pen drive linux good for installing softare? Does it have good repos?
DSL and Puppy are too minimalist.

Pen Drive Linux is just a site with a bunch of tutorials on how to get various distros running from a flash drive. It's not actually a distro. Go look around.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

[Raccoon1400]

Pen Drive Linux is just a site with a bunch of tutorials on how to get various distros running from a flash drive. It's not actually a distro. Go look around.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

It is a distro too.
The linux.com article linked said:

Pendrivelinux is both a Linux distribution for USB flash disks and a comprehensive Web site with lots of articles and information on getting Linux running from a flash disk.