<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">One could use isomaster and portable linux to put together a multi booting usb stick resembling the ultimate boot cd distro . I'd like to see them configured to easily use the same local repository on the 4 or 8g stick . Or use rpm and make it easy for a different distro to 'alien' the packages . I suppose one would carefully include proprietary stuff as an easy option to add that will let one download from the already uncommented debian volatile , so one can easily get out and update against malware . If the first distro doesn't setup the hardware right then try another from the stick , all smaller than one might expect , smaller from using the same local repository . Also , I NEED to change the openoffice on the MEPIS install my main user uses . <br></td></tr></table><br>