[CentOS] Router for SOHO network - hardware considerations

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Bob Puff at NLE wrote:

> I am looking for something similar to this thread.. Is there a way to
> make a small CentOS distro that is bootable and runnable from only a
> USB memory stick?  It would need to be able to have files modified, but
> I wouldn't want the USB stick to die prematurely due to a ton of writes...

Lookup stateless linux.  Very easy to get a read-only root CentOS going, with
writable regions or not to taste.

jh