On Saturday 17 March 2018 22:14:27 Glen Cunningham wrote:
On Sunday 18 March 2018 11:50:11 William Morder wrote:
On Saturday 17 March 2018 00:27:16 Glen Cunningham wrote:
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Okay, so do you mean that you are actually installing your system to a USB stick, or that you are copying the iso image to it, and using it to boot like a live CD or DVD?
Not exactly, you follow the Slax instructions https://www.slax.org/ug/starting.php IIRC. In Linux, just dd the .iso to appropriate writable media (I used a Sandisk USB 3.0 "thumb" drive. Then follow the instructions in the readme.txt file to make it bootable.
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When I boot up, I never see "Persistent Changes" in my menu choices (although I've heard about it). I can do a little research and see what I discover. Once I sort out my desktop, I can try installing Slax a USB, then see if I can figure out how "Persistent Changes" works.
"Persistent Changes" has been broken by the builder of the "Slax with Trinity" image. However, I'm still looking to see if I can restore this, for me, essential feature. A post in the origin thread that announced the "Slax with Trinity" asking for this got no response. :-(
Glen
Yeah, you're talking about making a live USB with the image instead of a live CD, then booting from that. (Maybe I misunderstand you, but you did say to dd the iso to a USB, right?) I do know how to copy the iso to a flash drive and make it bootable. Useful, but I don't do it much.
That's not what I am doing. I am installing my complete operating system, and all packages that I use, to a flash drive, then my flash drive itself becomes a kind of portable computer. I partition it like the hard drive on my computer, with /, swap, and /home partitions.
Then I just use the hardware of another computer to boot, but my flash drive is itself a clone of the running system on both my desktop and my laptop.
That way, wherever I go, I can have my running system, with all my settings, preferred packages, etc.
Bill
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