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On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill <danthehat@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash
> drive.  I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I
> attempted a Gentoo install on it.  It is nothing short of the biggest
> pain in the butt I could have imagined.  But if you like a
> challenge...
>
> D
>
>

Come to think of it, why wouldn't a simple:

dd if="/path/to/gentoo-livecd.iso" of=/dev/<flash drive>

not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal
install CD, but I don't remember.