Using USB Flash drives instead of CF

[Jeff Noxon]

Has anyone tried using a USB Flash drive instead of CF?  I can build a
usable 2.6.0-test2 kernel in well under 400kB with USB and SCSI support,
and most of the rest as modules.  In theory it could just use /dev/sda
as the root device, right?

Unfortunately, networking adds another 156kB to the size of the compressed
kernel, and cannot be built as a module...  But I can live without that
on a workstation, and etherboot could always be included too.

Regards,

Jeff

[John Hearns]

Jeff Noxon wrote:
> Has anyone tried using a USB Flash drive instead of CF?  I can build a
> usable 2.6.0-test2 kernel in well under 400kB with USB and SCSI support,
> and most of the rest as modules.  In theory it could just use /dev/sda
> as the root device, right?

The Oreilly book on Embedded Linux I mentioned yesterday has a good 
section on using USB flash drives.

[Antony Stone]

On Friday 08 August 2003 10:40 am, John Hearns wrote:
> The Oreilly book on Embedded Linux I mentioned yesterday has a good
> section on using USB flash drives.

Hi John :)

I didn't see a posting from you on this list yesterday, but the book sounds 
interesting; please could you repeat it?

Thanks,

Antony.