[ale] anyone installed linux on to a flash drive

[Pete Hardie]

It is feasible, and there is a tool just for this purpose - LiveUSB
Creator.  It's availabe for certain on Fedora, and 99 and 44/100ths
sure available on the rest of the *nixes

I used it to make a recovery drive for my work machine, for when I
upgrade and the video drivers are not behaving, so I can boot from the
flash drive and edit the config to use something that will work

Pete Hardie
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
<savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends:
>
> I want to install Linux on to a flash drive.
>
> Has anyone in the ALE family done this ?
>
> When I install Linux on to a Flash drive, does it mean that I can take it
> from machine to machine or is it specific to the hardware that I installed
> for ?
>
> What about taking the flash drive out and plugging it back to the same
> machine, that should be doable right ?  I am trying to use this as an
> alternate os at work on the same hardware.
>
> What is the diff between installing the OS on a Flash drive vs running Live
> CD (Puppy or Linux Mint that saves data) ?
>
> My Flash drive is 2GB and I am not sure if Arch can be installed there with
> XFace.
>
> Is it feasible to do so ?
>
> I would like all kinds of comments to help out.
>
> -Narahari
>
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