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