Help installing Arch BAse to bootable USB flash

Hi,
I have installed a slimmed ArchLinux base to a USB mass storage gadget (ballpoint pen with 256 Mb) and manged to boot into it by using a simple initial ram-disc to setup the USB drivers and then pivot_root/chroot into the Arch root partition.
This has given me a partially functional Arch base system with an ADSL connection and pacman working, but also with limitations some of whom are as follows:
* The /dev directory does not have the initctrl pipe and the usual links to devices (hda1, hda2 or sda1, sda2 etc), only the directories with the device nodes (discs/disc0/part1 etc).
* User interrupt (CTRL-C) doesn't work.
* CTRL-F2 etc don't open new consoles.
* Reboot and I think halt also don't work since init cannot run.
* The /etc/rc.sysinit and rc.mutli scripts seems to run successfully.
Since in my fumbling ways I got thus far, I thought I should ask for help hoping to end up with a normally functioning install so I can operate successfully from my Ballpoint ArchLinux!
My thanks in advance!

noprob wrote:if I'm not mistaken the AMLUG Live CD 0.4.2 has this option concerning usb booting.
I believe it is referred to as a thumb hard drive or something similar. :?:
Thanks, I will have a look at this today.

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