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-A KeyDrive is basically a bit of flash memory with a [USB] interface. They're roughly as large as a thumb and perfect for carrying one around on your keychain -
hence the name. Their capacity is commonly 128MB
, which makes them a more sensible contemporary means of transporting data than floppy disks
would be. You can even boot from one, if your [BIOS] knows how to talk to them.
+A KeyDrive is basically a bit of flash memory with a [USB] interface. They're roughly as large as a thumb (so sometimes referred to as "thumb drive")
and perfect for carrying one around on your keychain (
hence the name "key drive")
. Their capacity is commonly 128[MB]
, which makes them a more sensible contemporary means of transporting data than [FloppyDisk]s
would be. You can even boot from one, if your [BIOS] knows how to talk to them. Some [LinuxDistribution]s are bootable directly from a KeyDrive, others can use a KeyDrive to make your home directory and other configuration data persistent
.
-[LinuxDistribution
]s bootable directly from a KeyDrive include
-
-*
[Flonix | http://flonix.tuxfamily.org
]
-* LinuxMobileSystem
-*
[Linux Key | http://linuxkey.biz]
-* [Puppy | http://www.goosee.com/puppy/], a [cuckoo | Cuckoo distro | ] and [ pluralmedia | Pluralmedia distro ] [distro | WikiPedia:distro
] that doesn´t need own [partion]).
-
-There
are also [LiveCD | WikiPedia:LiveCD]s such as [Mandrake] Move that can use a KeyDrive
to make your home directory and other configuration data persistent
.
+Another cuse for
[KeyDrive
]s is for storing
[GPG
] [PrivateKey
]s so
that they
are never written
to the HardDrive
.
See also:
-
+* HotPlug
* WikiPedia:Keydrive
-* HotPlug
-* [HowToBootUSBFromDOS]
* [Linux USB system | http://www.linux-usb.org/]
* [USB booklet | http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html]
* [USB Devices | http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/]
* [usbview program | http://www.kroah.com/linux-usb/]
* [USB support under Linux | http://www.usbman.com/linuxusb.htm]
* [Installing Debian from an USB key | http://d-i.pascal.at]
* http://linuxmobile.sourceforge.net/english/suppliers.html
* http://tuxmobil.org/Mobile-Guide.db/Mobile-Guide.html
