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try this: http://susestudio.com/
Thanks, Paul. After reading your reply I tried this and it did work. But it creates an installation USB. There was an option for creating some persistent storage on the USB in the Startup Disk Creator GUI, but it was grayed. I had 3.7 G free on the drive but was not allowed to reserve even a couple hundred meg for persistent storage. I'd like to create a USB drive I could boot up and use as a working environment. I'd need to be able to save my work on it as well. Ideally I'd be able to create a password protected login with an encrypted home directory, but just some permanent store would work for now.
Fedora (when it works) allows you to create persistent storage on the USB for keeping your home directory files. Knoppix (from what I've read) uses UnionFS to merge stuff in a writable partition with directories on the read-only part, which theoretically allows you to keep more than just your home directory. I don't know what Ubuntu does in this regard. Since it didn't allow me to create any writable store, I wasn't able to play with it.
Dwight Victor said:try this: http://susestudio.com/
Hmm... I tried registering with Suse Studio, but right now it's by invitation only.
Wow! This is exactly what I'm trying to do! I'm working on an appliance and want to use a removable drive to try building it from scratch to make sure I have all the components I need. Not too sure about uploading my files to Suse, though. I'm doing proprietary software that runs on a Linux base (like Tivo or the Android phone). Putting my software on a Suse server doesn't seem like the right thing to do. If it will let me install my proprietary stuff to the USB after building it, though...
I've had great luck with DSL (damnsmalllinux.org) on a live thumb drive only it doesn't work on some Dell machines. Otherwise it's great.
If you want to do more than just have a glorified utility disk (and a compiler!) then I would suggest Ubuntu. You can create a usb bootable drive right from gnome (it's one of the menu options).
The bios on some machines also don't support usb boot so a customized live CD may be another option for you. I know DSL supports this - not sure about Ubuntu.
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