Yeah, our computers at work…I had to ask them to ‘release’ whatever it was they were using because you can’t run ANY programs from usb, or the desktop, and somehow they have quarantined the rest of the computer so you can’t really mess with anything…but at least now i can run my portable apps so I know the usb was opened up for using .exe files even though you can not still run any directly installed on the computer except for what they have set up already, I have tried to switch the boot drive to no avail, you can’t even get to the disk management in windows or bios from f12 at startup…

But thats ok,

Hopefully the usb install will be persistent, that will be good…

Its funny about the 2007 theme to me it looks better than the theme i got from downloading the most recent this month! humph!

ALright, once again thanks for the swift reply and the great articles and posts here!!!

1b: I *think* it’s persistent, but I’m not positive

2: It’s the default one on whatever version of DSL I would’ve downloaded in early 2007.

1) I have the DSL live disc and have hesitated to do the USB install because of these two reasons:
a) the computers at works are set so you can not change the boot configuration/BIOS without admin privileges.
b) even if I didn’t want it for work, how can I make the DSL on USB persistent even after the live cd to usb install of DSL like shown above in the picture?

and last, which is just a statement…a cd may be a cumbersome to carry around but most all computers still boot from the cd/dvd drive before the usb drive.

Also, what theme is used in the DSL picture used in this post? I like it better than the one I got when I downloaded the live cd which was just a few days ago, and this was one is not the one I have.

Thanks if someone can address these issues…

A distro that I recommend for pen drives is Puppy Linux – http://puppylinux.com/about.htm Puppy linux has got a package manager inbuilt, so it’s very easy to add additional applications