I've been messing around with the slax linux distro on a USB pen drive. Here are the instructions to get it to work, you need at least a 256MB USB pen drive.
0) format your USB pen drive (I used a FAT32 fs, I *think* it may work with others, but I have not tested) 1) grab the Slax linux ISO and burn a bootable cd [ http://slax.linux-live.org ] 2) boot linux from the Slax CD and insert your USB pen drive 3) open a terminal 4) "cd /boot" 5) "./create_bootdisk.sh . /dev/sda1 /dev/sda SLAX" (feel free to replace /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda if your USB pen drive is located somewhere else) 6) change the boot order in your bios settings to have USB device come before your harddrive 7) remove cd, keep USB pen drive plugged in, reboot, enjoy
As far as I can tell, Slax is a very clean and orderly distro with all the init scripts and packages in good order. You can find all the packages that are included at http://slax.linux-live.org/installed_packages.txt
Has anyone else had any experience using any linux distro's from a USB pen drive? Anyone seen any distro's that you can put on a USB pen drive that work on the PowerPC architecture?
-Chris