As a small exercise in geekdom (when i probably should have been to bed already) i installed Xubuntu 6.10 on a one gig Kingston Mini-Migo USB flash drive. Yeah, it’s pretty small :). Instructions are here.

What i didn’t get running straight out of the box was the wireless network, which was handled with a small sudo ifdown eth0 and sudo ifup eth1 from a terminal session. Even the 1920 x 1200 screen (or whatever this is) worked without having to do anything about it. Also, since the installer i used was for Ubuntu, not Xubuntu, some graphical bits seem out of place — like stuff not starting from the menu.

Still, this was more a proof of concept for me, whether this could be done in reasonable time and with reasonable effort. And it could.

Now to bed.