document updated 15 years ago, on Jul 14, 2008
Most "live Linuxes" are LiveCDs. And they usually use something like cloop or squashfs. However, neither of these is strictly necessary when booting from a USB hard drive. In that case, you simply want it to not have a fixed install point (i.e. /dev/sda1), and thorough hardware autodetection.
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