Hi all,
probably ground that has been covered before, but I have been experimenting with Distros to boot from a Flash drive, but can't seem to find one that fits my requirements.

So far, I have tried Puppy, Slax and Xubuntu. Xubuntu was probably the best from a functional point of view, for me, but it was very slow booting from the drive. Puppy was fast, but lacked what I am looking for.

Basically, I want a distro that I can install to my USB drive, with the ability to update the software and packages on it reguarly with good repositories. In addition, I need to be able to use it in pretty much anything you can stick a USB drive into.

Any recommendations?? Or am I being too fussy?

Hi,

Your mixing things. Flash or USB drive? Which one?

BTW, look at the bottom of this thread for 'similar threads/posts'.

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A usb pen drive. Sandisk Cruzer Micro, 8GB. I thought they were commonly called Flash drives???

BTW, thanks for the links.

Hi,

You opened the thread with a 'Flash' then stated the above. USB Drive is a physical hard drive that is connected externally via the USB. If you are going to state a 'Flash Drive' then continue with that or 'Flash'.

Now to address a 'Flash Drive' or 'Pen Drive' (notice name pen or sub a stick), look at 'Live USB' to get a understanding plus additional links.

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You can have live ubuntu on pen drive using unetbootin.

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Take a peek at pendrivelinux.com for how to's and distrowatch.com for package details and top rated distro's.