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March 31, 2017 at 12:11 am #5684
Does anyone still have a copy of Bruce’s way of creating a USB drive with Linux installed please? I made a bootable drive ages ago based roughly on what Bruce started, but I forgot to copy the thread from MM before it died :negative:
March 31, 2017 at 9:01 am #5686Check your PM chief
March 31, 2017 at 5:52 pm #5698Check your PM chief
Got it, thanks :good:
March 31, 2017 at 6:15 pm #5700you’re welcome – as an aside I struggled to find a use for it. For a permanent install on a fast USB you can install direct on the USB (like a HDD), and for a portable version, a live linux disk with an extra NTFS partition has worked best for me. The persistent install isn’t really portable as it is tweaked to the system you created it on.
Not knocking it but I couldn’t find a use for it.
March 31, 2017 at 9:06 pm #5702I have to say I agree. A multi-boot pendrive lives on my key-ring with Mint MATE, Mint XFCE, Puppy Linux (My own remastered version) and Hiren’s so I can boot to whichever I choose. There’s also a set of Windows Portable Apps.
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April 2, 2017 at 1:19 am #5743I can’t remember exactly what I did, but I could run the Linux install from the pen drive as if it was a proper installation, but could swap it between computers. It would take a bit longer to boot the first time I used it on each machine, but I only used it on a handful of machines, mainly to recover files. I copied the VirtualBox files from a LiLi drive too, so it could run in a VM on any machine.
VFM: I use PortableApps on the drive too. I use Portable Thunderbird as my email client and copy it to the drive every so often. It goes with me then so that if anything happens to my computer, I’ve got a quick and dirty backup.
While I’ve been typing this, I realised that I might still have the drive set up. I’ve run it as a VM and remembered how slow it is on the old drive. This is why I’ve been looking for the instructions, so that I can get it running on a faster drive. Ideally I want to set up WordPress and Neural Enhancer on it, and be able to take them with me, along with any other things that I want to try to learn.
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