small live usb linux distro for the AO?

I read an article on how you can get linux distros to boot from a usb flash memory, instead of cd or dvd
Damned Small Linux, Puppy Linux and so on.

It seemed like a cool idea, if you just want to check it out without installing anything.

Unfortunately, when it came to describing how to get them on your usb memory,
the installation began; "download the iso and burn to a cd".... what some call ironic, isn't it.

I'm looking for something I can download using the Aspire One 110 Linpus and transfer to my usb to boot from.
Not something that requires another computer or cd burner or windows....

 

Ubuntu Netbook Remix comes as a disk image that you can copy directly to your USB drive using dd command.

Download the .img file from here: http://oem-images.canonical.com/unr/

 

You want http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ .

To make it run on the AAO under Linpus, you probably will also need to install some other packages:

Code:

sudo yum install syslinux p7zip-plugins mtools

 

Thanks guys.

I downloaded the UNR img file and copied it to the USB key.
No problems so far. Good to know about the dmesg command.
I also found the df command useful for IDing the usb drive.

The problem is that when I Boot from the drive (using F12 at boot)
theres is just a blinking underscore....weird

edit: I later tried this with a 4GB drive instead of the 8GB that didn't boot, it worked and it actually says first thing
"This will destroy everything on your hard drive" or something so that answers my questions below

Reading more about it I'm now wondering if this is what I wanted?
The guide at: https://wiki.edubuntu.org/UNR
talks only about booting an install USB disk, not running the operating system from the USB key.
Should I partition the USB key first or use 2 usb Keys, one for booting the installer and another for installing unto?

The most practical would be a diskimage specifically for the aspire one to copy to a usb memory and just boot from and you were in the system as a user, ready to go. Then later if you really liked the system you could download an installer and go through all the necessary steps.

 

UNR will install onto your system, it's not what you were asking for at all.

 

my guess is you want something like you can find at Pendrivelinux

pick one of the "live cd install on usb" and give it a go,
just instead of mounting the cd in a cddrive mount the iso on a loop device,
aka

Code:

mount -o loop -t iso9660 "path/name.iso" /mnt/cdrom 

 

You should really give Unetbootin a try. It is a very easy to use tool to put various distributions on a usb-drive.
If you are looking for a aao specific distro try "easy-peasy":
http://www.geteasypeasy.com/
I can highly recommend it!