http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenWRT/BootFromUsbDevice This guide covers fast (12mbit/s) USB and ext2 filesystem only. Make sure you install package kmod-usb2 and load module ehci-hcd or your disk will be (very, hdparm -t < 12,5mbit/s) slow. This tutorial is for OpenWRT (kamikaze, backfire) with 2.6 kernel, but it will probably work for other devices too running OpenWRT on a ... Read more
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/744 Using the Terminal It is really simple. Go to a Terminal and type: sudo dd if=~/Desktop/linuxmint.iso of=/dev/sdx oflag=direct bs=1048576 Where ‘~/Desktop/linuxmint.iso’ is the name and location of your downloaded image (located at the desktop in this example) and ‘/dev/sdx’ is the target USB drive. If your system doesn’t support ‘oflag=direct’, you can just leave it … Read more
http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/linux-on-flash.html If you are running your Linux system on a USB flash key, there are a number of things you might want to do in order to reduce the wear and tear on the underlying flash device (as it only supports a limited number of writes). The ext3 filesystem per default writes metadata changes every … Read more