USB devices are block devices like any other. Linux doesn't care if you install or boot from a SATA disk or a USB disk, it makes no differences in that regard. The only niggle is can be BIOS support, ...
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Forget tiny distros: How I built my own minimal Linux using Debian
Who needs a separate distro when you can tweak the Debian you already have?
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