Microscopic distribution?

[Roxoff]

I need a small distro that I can put on a 2Gig USB device, it has to work on a 64bit dual opteron machine (gotta be 64 bit 'cos it's got 4Gigs of memory, and 32bit will only see 2Gigs of that). I looked across Distrowatch and the big bad boy of the little distributions, DSL, only comes in a 32bit flavour, and I couldn't find any others that offered 64 bit support either.

Can anyone throw a suggestion or two up that I could try?

[bidi]

I need a small distro that I can put on a 2Gig USB device, it has to work on a 64bit dual opteron machine (gotta be 64 bit 'cos it's got 4Gigs of memory, and 32bit will only see 2Gigs of that). I looked across Distrowatch and the big bad boy of the little distributions, DSL, only comes in a 32bit flavour, and I couldn't find any others that offered 64 bit support either.

Can anyone throw a suggestion or two up that I could try?

If all you need is SMP and big memory support you can just recompile DSL's kernel and get that. A 32 bit kernel can handle up to 64GB of RAM, so that's not a problem. If you really want 64 bit support, I guess you can create something using the live CD tools like Linux-Live or the Debian live-packages. These are supposed to create Live CDs, but I guess they can be modified to fit on a USB drive.

[Roxoff]

Thanks, bidi. It doesn't have to be on the pen drive, I was gonna use that for convenience - I got it to put music and other data on to take into and out of work with me.

A Live CD would do nicely, thanks for the tip. I'll take a closer look into those two distros you mentioned.

[stubbe]

you can try slax. it's 200mb in size and intended for live cd or usb

[oz]

Not sure they'll have what you want, but you could take a look through the liveCD listing at FrozenTech:

http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php