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Yup, you can do anything you can do to a disc with cfdisk.
(or PM in windows of course).
I DID have issues getting a partitioned stick to boot, but I did get there in the end, and it was mainly because I was adapting the knoppix live cd to run from it.
(or PM in windows of course).
I DID have issues getting a partitioned stick to boot, but I did get there in the end, and it was mainly because I was adapting the knoppix live cd to run from it.
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I have MCNLive running on my 2GB cruzer, i partitioned it to run linux from one partition and store my documents on the second partition. BUT! windows (xp) will only see the first partition on the drive, apparently there is a new driver that will allow it to see all partitions, but obviously that doesn't make it portable. Linux will see all partitions.
But all i did was create a folder under the first partition for my documents.
MCNlive is no longer maintained, but it is compatible with the mklivecd scripts so you can boot the liveCD, make changes to the system (install/remove stuff) then use the system to make a new liveCD (based on MCNlive), then boot your liveCD and use the wizard to copy it to USB flash.
You can make a "loop file" which will store all your changes/files while you are in linux so you can basically use it like you would a normal system.
But all i did was create a folder under the first partition for my documents.
MCNlive is no longer maintained, but it is compatible with the mklivecd scripts so you can boot the liveCD, make changes to the system (install/remove stuff) then use the system to make a new liveCD (based on MCNlive), then boot your liveCD and use the wizard to copy it to USB flash.
You can make a "loop file" which will store all your changes/files while you are in linux so you can basically use it like you would a normal system.
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They're all Linux compatible.
Treat it like any other hard drive, use either partition magic or linux cfdisk to destroy the current partition table and make 2 new partions.
After that, just follow the instructions for whatever distro you are using.
You're better off using one that's designed as a live CD and following a how-to on convering it for USB use. You can also just install linux on it like it was a normal hard drive, but this will not give it good portability.
While Linux has amazing hardware support, and will boot in almost any system, because it's on a USB key, you do not know for certain what the device will be called on that machine. Eq...on a machine with no SATA drives it'll probably be /dev/sda but if the machine had 2 sata drives and another USB stick attached it would be /dev/sdd.
The scripts on live cd distros sort all that out for you on every boot.
Treat it like any other hard drive, use either partition magic or linux cfdisk to destroy the current partition table and make 2 new partions.
After that, just follow the instructions for whatever distro you are using.
You're better off using one that's designed as a live CD and following a how-to on convering it for USB use. You can also just install linux on it like it was a normal hard drive, but this will not give it good portability.
While Linux has amazing hardware support, and will boot in almost any system, because it's on a USB key, you do not know for certain what the device will be called on that machine. Eq...on a machine with no SATA drives it'll probably be /dev/sda but if the machine had 2 sata drives and another USB stick attached it would be /dev/sdd.
The scripts on live cd distros sort all that out for you on every boot.
dont know if this has been posted or not but check out http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ I used it to make a debian pendrive install that I had all my work on. if you partition an 8gb with 4gb for linux and just format the other 4 as a fat32 partition any operating system would be able to use it. you could always put a ext2/3 driver on the flash drive to access the first partition anyway.
Hope that helps somewhat.
Hope that helps somewhat.