> I'm curious how you will boot into it.  I've heard of new computer
> BIOS's starting to support boot from USB.

LMS seems to have solved this problem with a boot floppy.  Newer systems
boot off USB no problem.  Since the keychain is FAT16, syslinux works
great on them.

> Will you just chroot?  Or do you plan on making a boot disk you
> can chroot over to it?

That is an option.

> What purpose will it serve?

Right now geekness factor.  I'm more curious to see if it CAN be done.

> I recently got a Gateway Internet Appliance thing to run off of
> a USB harddrive.  I'm booting from a 32MB CF, mounting the USB
> drive and chroot over to it.  Seems to work fine, considering its
> not the faster USB2.0.

This is one way of doing it.  You could also install grub on the CF as
well as a USB ready kernel and just use /dev/sda1 as your root.  Chroot is
an option, but natively would be cooler :-)

I'm currently interested in DSL, as it should be quite simple to modify. 
It just uses a floppy image, which is easy to emulate on these.

-Brian

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