[Slugnet] looking for a usb bootable distro - with storage to encrypted drive

Harish Pillay harish.pillay at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 21:15:38 SGT 2009


> Does anybody have any suggestions? The distro should be bootable from
> usb, and be able to store stuff (hopefully including extensions!!) to
> an encrypted hard drive. I'm currently looking at DSL, Puppy, and Tiny
> Core Linux. TCL looks doable for storing data (although it uses the
> "deprecated" cryptoloop), and while DSL has been mentioned somewhere
> as being able to do it, I cant seem to find any info about it in its
> home page... Likewise puppy.

Fedora 10 would do that.  I have my main "machine" sitting on a
USB drive (not thumbdrive per se), but a 160GB drive.  It is installed
with F10 and have them all in encrypted partitions.

HTH.

Harish



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