I need linux with wifi and browser (948 mb have my usb drive) . Please give me url. Can work with pendrive linux

Its important to note that many early USB drives had latencies that didn't quite meet the specs and were impossible to use.

i have earlier parted magic on this drive, and all works. now i need linux with wifi and web browser. or other system: meego or chrome os

Use UNetbootin and a live distro.

what is live distro?

A version of Linux which you can boot and use without installing it onto a hard drive.
With live distro versions you may boot it on any computer and you may choose to install it onto an actual hard drive.
Most versions of Linux offer a live distro.

soulman, YoshiHDify thanks!!!

I think you should try this link to learn more:
http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm

you can create a bootable usb linux drive directly from unetbootin (providing you are connected to the internet) it will download the selected distro image automatically and prepae the usdb drive for you

I use ubuntu and cant recommend it more!

the download image is 700mb on a usb drive

Hi,

Unetbootin will let you put a linux distro on a usb stick (as mentioned by soulman)
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Distro watch will help you choose what distro of linux you want
http://distrowatch.com/

I have tinycore running from a 32Mb sd card it has all you ask for, but can be awkward to setup.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/welcome.html


Kindest regards

James

Doesn't PartedMagic have WiFi and Firefox?

The other catch with using a Livedisk method is that you can't save any of your files. Every time you reboot, you'll be starting over. At least, you will on such a small pendrive. On larger ones it's possible to create a "persistent" partition that STORES stuff...

UNetbootin creates a persistance file on certain distributions. Just make sure your flash drive is about 2GB and you're set.

He said above that his USB drive has 984 MB of usable space. Hence my warning remark about no persistence.

You can get some form of persistence, I'd still recommend 2GB for a larger distro. For drives less than a gig and over 512MB in size, I recommend Slax. 200MB distro that's very customisable. http://slax.org/

If you don't want to Install Linux on your computer, you need persistence. If you want to INstall Linux on your computer, you don't ned persistence.

Download UNetbootin on http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net

You can use Ubuntu for it... it's very good, and works like a charm.

If you have any machine already using Ubuntu, you have an option in the menu to create the flash drive with a bootable Ubuntu to work as a live OS, with options to set it recordable or read only.

And it is very fast.

Oh my goodness. I would never put anybody, not even an arch enemy through Ubuntu.
There's better out there. Grab a Debian live CD and UNetbootin it. Slax is light and pretty easy to customise. Gentoo is very nice, can't remember if there's a Live CD though. Puppy is light, ideal for running on stuff like an Asus EeePC. OpenSUSE is decent enough. Mandriva is yucky but I'd still use it over Ubuntu any day. Sabayon has had good reviews too apparently.
There's tonnes more out there, get yourself on http://linux.org/ and look through the distro list.
Two more things:
1. Ubuntu is African for "I can't configure Debian". It's an insult to Linux.
2. This thread hasn't been replied to in ages, so my guess is OP has already settled on a distro.

Soulman, rather than recommending Mandriva, I'd go with Mageia. It's a Mandriva fork aiming to fix some of the stuff that's wrong with Mandriva. It's a little rough around the edges, but so far it's quite good. And Ubuntu USED to be good until they got too focused on "let's make (censored) look cool!" and forgot that the system SUPPORTING the flashy stuff has to work too.

I don't particularly like Mandriva to begin with but I'd use it any day over Ubuntu.

Do a minimal install of your favorite distro in a VM or on a normal PC, remove any unnecessary packages (ipv6, fibrechannel, or other packages that you don't need). After removing the unnecessary packages, on a normal distro (such as Fedora), you should have an install of 300MB. Add a minimal GUI environment and web-browser using the distro tools (apt-get, yum, etc.) and you'll still have a minimal distro. Yum utilities are of help to see unused leaf packages.

Basically, you should do:
yum install firefox xfce4 xorg-x11-drivers xorg-x11-fonts xorg-x11-filesystem xorg-x11-server xorg-x11-xauth

Alternatively, you can use a fedora or ubuntu live cd that weighs under 1GB and transfer it to USB using the tools found on the distro website. The live CDs always search for the hardware upon boot up, so they don't mind if you plug them in a different system every time.

Or he could avoid all the work and just use Puppy Linux. Given that OP hasn't posted here in a while, I'm willing to bet he's solved his problem.

Indeed he could. There are tens of really tiny linux distributions available and one could test them and figure out which is the best for his needs.
However, working a Linux/UNIX admin, I prefer to simply strip down my favorite distro instead of using a different one. When it fails, I like to be able to debug the problem easier. Furthermore, a stripped down install doesn't have any configuration tools for network, wireless, VPNs or many other settings so I like having the manual config files in the same place I know them from work.
For me, it's just like the hardened installs that we have to implement on occasion that have everything stripped and all configuration must be done manually.

With administration it's always a matter of taste. Mine is understandably subjectively tilted towards what I anyway have experience with from work.