On Thursday 04 April 2019 07:33:18 Michael wrote:
On Wednesday 03 April 2019 05:21:55 pm Gene Heskett
wrote:
On Wednesday 03 April 2019 12:38:12 Felix Miata
wrote:
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-03 08:16
(UTC-0400):
so maybe it might boot from usb stick after all, but
Hi All,
Okay I know about zero people on this list “need” this, as I’m sure we’re
all familiar enough with dd, but I’m not adverse to getting some extra QC
eyes to spot typo’s or bad copy/pastes ;) .
How to create a Bootable USB stick, with free space, from an ISO image
http://inet-design.com/blogs/michael/how-create-bootable-usb-stick-iso-imag
e.html
Hopefully though, the ability to have free space for .bashrc, proprietary
drivers, and whatnot on the USB after burning the ISO image will be useful
to few of you.
Best,
Michael
Already been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, about 2-3 years ago. I was
booting a laptop from a 64 gb flash drive. I partitioned the flash drive with
root, swap and home, and made it so that the laptop would not boot without it;
which was interesting, but now it keeps looking for the flash drive that I
don't want to use at present.
Anyway, an interesting experiment, to which I may yet return. My aim was to
make a sort of portable mini-computer that I could take round in my pocket,
and use it to boot up any computer (with permission, or one of my own). That
way, I could always have a mini-clone of my running system, with everything
available that I have here, and run it from any compatible computer, and have
my system everywhere.
I did not, as some thought, merely make a bootable iso copy of an installation
disc (using dd), but rather a complete working system, just with a smaller
home partition, because I didn't want to keep anything there permanently.
Bill
P.S. I haven't got awake enough to get on the Internet yet and look at your
page, but will do so after I make some coffee.