From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBKgC-0006Wu-Cp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 23:10:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j82N74Am000735; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 23:07:04 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j82N3V1E024712 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 23:03:32 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so500730nzc for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:06:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=XMrXOtfuaBGdu/1I5NyTbgOhNZz3AtL6SS3qz9pSLyzFwMWPky977BeQVEW3sNKHVNnv1qO/VKqAvZZcKmIE8B13A/0K7eIv0npWM+nXC/GF74T2TxaOP2b9eeh/qQTqYFMD5YaZE+RTyfPWycocU4K3X8gbkswiMqvRjHoABHs= Received: by 10.36.148.16 with SMTP id v16mr2891340nzd; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.7.18 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 16:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <558b73fb05090216063e86d8f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:06:13 -0400 From: Michael Crute To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Thumbdrive Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_16143_31400106.1125702373753" X-Archives-Salt: 775acc0d-7cc6-408c-b7d8-e4d31b97b6a6 X-Archives-Hash: 3b941db572d5a17ffad90c475cf28316 ------=_Part_16143_31400106.1125702373753 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling and at the moment I don't have = a=20 laptop. Needless to say I run into a lot of crappy computers (aka computers= =20 running Windoze). I typically carry a SLAX cd to remedy the problem but the= =20 downside is I can't save my files unless I additionally carry around a=20 thumbdrive. I was wondering if anyone has been able to install Gentoo on a= =20 thumbdrive. I assume it could be treated like a regular hard drive, correct= ?=20 How about hardware detection? If I use genkernel to make my kernel would it= =20 detect all (or most) of the hardware on a wide variety of computers? Any=20 thoughts, comments, suggestions, potential pitfalls would be appreciated.= =20 Thanks. -Mike --=20 ________________________________ Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux, because reboots are for installing hardware. "In a world without walls and fences, who needs windows and gates?" ------=_Part_16143_31400106.1125702373753 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Lately I have been doing a lot of traveling and at the moment I don't have a laptop. Needless to say I run into a lot of crappy computers (aka computers running Windoze). I typically carry a SLAX cd to remedy the problem but the downside is I can't save my files unless I additionally carry around a thumbdrive. I was wondering if anyone has been able to install Gentoo on a thumbdrive. I assume it could be treated like a regular hard drive, correct? How about hardware detection? If I use genkernel to make my kernel would it detect all (or most) of the hardware on a wide variety of computers? Any thoughts, comments, suggestions, potential pitfalls would be appreciated. Thanks.

-Mike

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