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On Fri Mar 24 12:32 , Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> sent: > > >On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 11:56:09AM +0000, Rob Beard wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I've recently taken the plunge and bought myself a USB pen drive. It's starting >to >> be a handy addition to my toolkit. >> >> A while ago I read up that there is a portable version of OpenOffice.org (for >> Windows I think) that can be loaded and run from a USB pen drive. I'm downloading >> this at the moment and I'm hoping I can use it at work (we have Office XP) and I >> use OOo at home and generally only save in Open file formats. >> >> This got me thinking, how would I go about installing a basic Linux OS with say >> Firefox, Thunderbird and OOo.org on it? >> >> I see that there are distros like Damn Small Linux which are fairly small. Having >> not tried them I don't know if it'll fit what I'm looking for. I did think of >> Debian, but I haven't got the foggiest on how to get starting installing Debian >on >> a USB key. >> >> Does anyone know of any How To's? >> >> >I have thought of getting DSL and then using it to log on to my machine >while travelling, so I wait to see the responses. > >However at the moment I use Thunderbird, gpg and gaim on a USB drive >and they work well. The installation instructions (also for openoffice, >firefox and others) are at > >http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/ > >I installed version 1.07 and then upgraded it as suggested. Works like a charm > >> By the way, if it's any help, I have a 256MB USB2.0 pen drive at the moment. >> >> Rob >> >> Thanks for the link. I'll check that out. I think I might invest in a couple of these USB pen drives. Maybe I could then have one for OOo.org, Thunderbird, and Firefox on Windows and then another with a bootable Linux distro (with the above, plus some extra useful file & drive tools too). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html