Hello all,

I'm trying to set something up, and being a linux noobie, I need some
help! What I'm trying to do is install linux on a 2gig flash drive
that can do sftp and samba. I currently have 4 hard drives I want to
put into a RAID 5, but since I can't boot from that, I don't want to
buy a whole other hard drive, especially if all its doing is file
serving.

Soo, is there a distro that isn't too ridiculously difficult that I
can set up a raid 5 (most likely through mdadm) and file serve from a
flash drive?

Thanks,
Brian

On 2007-08-28, Albright.Brian@gmail.com blabbered on and on about Best distro for use on a flash drive? in comp.os.linux.setup w
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to set something up, and being a linux noobie, I need some
> help! What I'm trying to do is install linux on a 2gig flash drive
> that can do sftp and samba. I currently have 4 hard drives I want to
> put into a RAID 5, but since I can't boot from that, I don't want to
> buy a whole other hard drive, especially if all its doing is file
> serving.
>
> Soo, is there a distro that isn't too ridiculously difficult that I
> can set up a raid 5 (most likely through mdadm) and file serve from a
> flash drive?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>

Greetings,

I am not sure if this will meet your requirements, but I read somewhere
that DSL has a small enough footprint to install on a flash drive.

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Pseudo Silk Kimono <Pseudo_Silk_Kimono@marillion.com> writes:

>On 2007-08-28, Albright.Brian@gmail.com blabbered on and on about Best distro for use on a flash drive? in comp.os.linux.setup w
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm trying to set something up, and being a linux noobie, I need some
>> help! What I'm trying to do is install linux on a 2gig flash drive
>> that can do sftp and samba. I currently have 4 hard drives I want to
>> put into a RAID 5, but since I can't boot from that, I don't want to
>> buy a whole other hard drive, especially if all its doing is file
>> serving.
>>
>> Soo, is there a distro that isn't too ridiculously difficult that I
>> can set up a raid 5 (most likely through mdadm) and file serve from a
>> flash drive?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>

>Greetings,

>I am not sure if this will meet your requirements, but I read somewhere
>that DSL has a small enough footprint to install on a flash drive.

A 2GB flash drive is pleanty of room to install almost anything.
Anyway, MCNLive is a Mandriva 2007.1 CD distro which can be put onto a
flash drive, and can be altered to include your desired stuff. Ie, Not sure
if it includes a raid 5 drivers, but you could install them. ( actually it
does include the standard Mandriva 2007.1 kernel, 2.6.17-13mdv so it
probably does include raid 5 drivers.)
You burn the cdrom, boot with it, install your changes, and then run script
from the menu to create a flash drive installation of the new system.
Remember that you do not want to be writing constantly to flash drive as
they have a limited number of burn/erase cycles befor they die.