Using a USB Flash instead of an SD card

[NativeMaxican]

I don't have an SD or microSD card to use for a hard drive. Can I use a USB Flash Drive instead?

[gordon77]

The RPi has to boot from a SD card, but you can put the rest of the system on as USB stick.

[czhanacek]

I have a similar problem. My 4GB SD card is essentially full, but I have many free external hard drives. How would I set the system up to boot from the SD card but have everything else on an external hd?

[texy]

Hi and welcome to the forum. A quick search brings up many replies
I haven't tried it myself, but this looks interesting :
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... ve#p301712

Texy