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Re: live Debian on USB stick

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 05:39:43PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote:

From: Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye10@yahoo.es>
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Subject:  Re: live Debian on USB stick
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Gerard Robin wrote:


On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:09:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:

From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
To: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: live Debian on USB stick



On 08/15/07 03:30, Gerard Robin wrote:

Hello,
I installed knoppix on my USB stick and it runs fine but it's too big
~ 600 Mb. There are too many packages.


Buy a bigger USB stick?  They're not that expensive.


Is there a Debian dist, not as big as knoppix, that I can put on my USB
stick ?


How big is your USB stick?

it's a 2 Gb, I have got enough space, but it's absurd to put on an USB
stick a lot of packages that I never use or which need a lot of ram like
openoffice.
I installed slax (~ 200 Mb) but the boot failed when it detect the PCMCIA
card ? knoppix is a very good job. (but too big :-))


Hi Gerard,
Maybe I'm not understanding you correctly. If not, sorry. Why don't you
install your knoppix on the usb drive and when all is working smoothly
remove the packages you're not using?
I must be missing something, right?
I can do apt-get remove useless.package (for my usage) all works fine, the system says to me that the package is removed. But I notice 2 things: 
- after that the useless.package has been removed the memory free is
  smaller than before.
- I stop the computer and when I reboot the box the useless.package is
  always there. I think it has been removed of the ramdisk not of the USB
stick. I used "Knoppix Persistent feature" ... but nothing persist ... I think that I also miss something as well. 

--
Gérard
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