Booting Linux from a USB thumb drive

[Sean Kirkby]

Hello,
 
I am looking for suggestions re: what distro to use to install on a 2.0 GiB USB thumb drive.
 
In addition to support for booting from the thumb drive on machines with BIOS's that allow that, we also need to have a boot floppy that can boot into an environment in which "/" is on the thumb drive.
 
I have found lots of references to DSL and Knoppix, but the weak instructions I've been able to find haven't worked so far...
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks.
 
--sk.
 
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