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