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Mepis 6.5 will create a version of the LiveCD on a USB stick, with the same limitations. This is initially broken in 7.0, but can be worked around by creating the broken USB stick first in 7.0 with the Mepis System Assistant, then deleting the useless mepis folder off the stick and copying the Mepis ISO file onto the stick. Then edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file on the stick to add this cheat to the third line of stanzas you want to boot: fromiso=name_of_Mepis_iso.iso. You can boot both 32 and 64 bit off the same stick, but you have to get the 64 bit vmlinuz off an install or LiveCD, rename it something like vmlinuz-64, add it to the stick, and point to it and the 64 bit ISO in the appropriate stanza.

When run off a reasonably fast USB drive, Mepis installs in a few minutes, and runs with hard drive speed.

I'm looking at a MSI Wind, and have my drive ready! Ask if anything is still unclear.

The wireless on the Wind and EEE PC is the Atheros 5007EG, and requires a special .deb build of madwifi (available here in Package Sharing) or ndiswrapper.