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- Updated 11June06
Firstly you need to ensure the machine you wish to operate the system on is capable of booting from the USB device. To do this you will probably have to adjust the setting in your machines BIOS configuration. Don't understand or worried about what this means, or maybe you are worried about messing with your machnies BIOS. Then maybe this section is probably not for you.
But running a complete operating system from your USB key is a possibility. Several people have managed to get a Linux distribution loaded onto and running from a key. Not for the faint hearted but the people at Puppy Linux have managed this.
There is also DamnSmallLinux that can be an embedded version to run as a seperate program while running windows.
Knoppix have their version of an installation and Feather Linux featured in the October 2005 edition of the magazine PCPLUS. You can follow a forum discussion on the successfull installation of knoppix at Success making bootable and persistent USB key with SYSLINUX
If you are not wishing to go the full hog but want to do some web development there is also something for you. Interested in developing a website based on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) configuration but didn't want to affect the setup of your main PC by installing it. CH software has managed to get a full WOS (Webserver On Stick), it works well try it out at www.chsoftware.net. This has been used in our development process. You just need to remember that your working directory is \wos_1.1.1\www\start, upload you files there, start WOS and you have a development system at your fingertips.
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