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

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Harish Pillay <harish.pillay at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>

:) thanks, but I'm looking for something that can be installed on a key...

-jf

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