[iBook] thumb drive Linux, was Re: Hard Drive for G3 iBook dual usb

[Tom R. no spam]

Could you tell where to find info how to run Linux on
a dual USB G3 iBook from a USB thumb drive?  That sounds
like an interesting trick.  And I wonder what it would
be like on a USB 2.0 G4 iBook, say.

> On 22/11/2007, at 9:53 AM, Jeremy Hendrix wrote:
>
> > I have an old G3 iBook that I bought used a few years ago.  It's
> > worked fine until recently.  After many hours spent diagnosing and
> > troubleshooting, I finally determined that the hard drive had acquired
> > too many bad sectors to continue to work reliably.  As an interim fix,
> > I installed SuSE linux to a thumb drive and have been booting from
> > that...its a workabe solution, but given that we're talking USB 1.1
> > its incredibly slow.  Can anyone point me to:
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