Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

I wanted a live Debian system on my USB key.
The Debian Live option is too static for my taste, I wanted a real live
system, upgradable via apt-get etc...

One option is to use a large enough USB drive and do a plain Debian install
on it.  But my USB drive is only 128MB so it was not possible.

I saw someone on the web has done something like that using squashfs+unionfs
and so you can do apt-get update and then to store the resulting state back
on the drive, you do some kind of "commit".

I didn't want to go down that route, so instead I've used a "plain normal
Debian system", but using jffs2 as a file system, which has the advantage of
being compressed and writable.

The whole story can be found at

    http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~monnier/gnu-linux/debian-live-usb


-- Stefan