[Novalug] Linux Live CD question

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Wed Jan 23 17:10:49 EST 2008


Not sure, but check out puppy linux.

Jay

> All,
> I have a junked G4 Powerbook that has been stripped of most functional
> parts.  I was thinking of systematically putting it back together to run
> Linux.  At this point, I don't know what is and is not running.
>
> It has no hard drive or cd drive.  Is it possible to load a distro to a
> thumb drive and run off that?
> What kind of life expectancy can I expect to get from a thumb drive?  I know
> a thumb drive has a limited number of writes, but other then the image, I'm
> not writing to it,  am I?  I'm not looking to make it a work horse.  This
> more an exercise in resurrecting a dead laptop.
>
> CTM
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