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Feather Linux: The Swiss Army Knife of LiveCDs (O'ReillyNet)
O'ReillyNet
takes a look at Feather Linux. "To demonstrate how well Feather
Linux works as a rescue CD, I'm going to pose a common administrative
problem and demonstrate how to solve it with the LiveCD. Think of it like a
MacGyver computer exercise, with a Feather CD as the Swiss Army
knife. While doing this, we will practice the Unix Way, taking full
advantage of its tools: bash, Perl, pipes, redirections, and the rest of
the arcane Unix heritage."
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Little FAT error :)
Posted Nov 13, 2004 3:42 UTC (Sat) by cr (guest, #3685) [Link]
FAT16 has the 2GB limit. The whole point of FAT32 (introduced with Win95 OSR2, working as reliably as it gets with Win98) was to push that design limit out a ways (32G? I forget), while reducing the allocation-block size. The blocksize for a 2GB FAT16 partition is 32k, which results in a lot of typical-use slack, and even worse if you're text-oriented like most DOS-to-Linux migraters such as myself.
Feather Linux: The Swiss Army Knife of LiveCDs (O'ReillyNet)
Posted Nov 13, 2004 19:27 UTC (Sat) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]
I personally prefer Slax as a portable live distribution (on USB keys and such). While bigger than Feather Linux the full graphical distro fits on a 256MB stick and the console-only version fits well within 128MB.
Download the ISO of your preferred Slax flavor, mount it using loopback and then use the createbootdisk.sh script to install it to your portable drive.