Amiga on a usb drive

[eightbit]

I know my amiga forever 6 edition has Kxlight on it, which is a stripped down bootable knoppix(linux) knockoff.  I think this is more what your looking for. It boots directly into a 3.x (3.1 plus enhancements) environment off the cd bypassing windows .  I'd love to be able to install it to a hard drive though,  and also change it to a 1.3 environment.  I'm sure there are ways to do that.  Because of KXlight being linux based ,  I'd imagine you could contact amigaforever.com and get download the source since it should be gpl'd.

[bloodline]

Once M$ send me my Free USB flash stick, I'll have a look at setting up a bootable USB AROS system :-)

If you can install GRUB on the Stick, then AROS should be possible.

[Hyperspeed]

I'm sure I heard on Amiga.org News about some tiny little Linux that could fit onto a 50MB business card CDR.

Since Workbench is even smaller I suppose you could carry a USB pen and a business card CDR so at least one method would work...

[eightbit]

I've got the "linux from scratch" book that shows step by step how to build your own distro.  I was thinking on doing an installable linux uae distro myself.  It'll take awhile though.  When I get it done I'll host it on my site.

[tom_a_spar]

Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a live CD Linux distribution that's only 50MB in size, so it can run from a business card-size CD. Even though it's tiny, it still manages to provide a functional and easy-to-use desktop system.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

[Oliver]

tom_a_spar wrote:
Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a live CD Linux distribution that's only 50MB in size, so it can run from a business card-size CD. Even though it's tiny, it still manages to provide a functional and easy-to-use desktop system.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

What about drivers?  That would still be a problem if one is looking to have a portable Amiga environment.  I expect a UAE installation on a USB stick would have greater portability.  Perhaps one could have both WinUAE and EUAE on the same stick?

If you want WinUAE to load upon USB stick insertion, can you create an autorun to do so?  I can't remember seeing autorun used for USB, though I imagine it would be possible.

[midwan]

Aaah,
once upon a time, there was a brilliant piece of software, called Amithlon. It was based on a linux kernel and booted straight from a CD, or you could install it on a hard disk partition if you wanted to.

But like all brilliand things, it couldn't last very long.

They took it down.

I'm betting that would be the ideal solution, booting into a fast AmigaOS from a small USB stick (128MB would be enough).

[Hyperspeed]

The coolest data storage are those SD cards that have an inbuilt USB port, they'd be much smaller than a pen-drive.

Even smaller are those cards that go into mobile phones - they're pea sized.

Theoretically you could boot Workbench in 8MB, why does Linux need even 50MB?

[tom_a_spar]

what about using a three way set up
linux to....
UAE
fellow (if there is a linux port)
AROS

I have been looking into it

DSL (damn small linux) uses Knoppix (strip down version 22meg) witch is based of Debian

[AmiBiL0]

I have been running the AF version of knoppix on a 128mb CF card, but I use it as an internal HD as it makes my laptop noiseless and the battery last longer as well.

However i guess you could do the same on a USB pen as long as the computer that you pluggin in it will support USB booting.

It would be like having AF2006 on a USB instead of the CD (you know that you can boot from AF2006 CD on any PC right?)

you can cut down AF2006 up to 100 MB if you only copy what you need. (or even lower if you have your own install of the AmigaOS)
then its only a matter of making the USB buttable.
I would use syslinux but other appllication like loadlin can work as well.

good luck

BiL0