Re: portable Debian

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 10:01:58AM -0430, Germana Oliveira wrote:
> Rob: Sorry not to trust you!!
> 
> I already read a little bit of Debian Live, so should i follow :
> http://live.debian.net/manual/html/ch02s03.html
> 
> so i can install Debian Live in a HDD, or maybe i go for the USB ...
> How many space do i need to have a standard Debian + Apache + mysql and
> a web app framework?
> 
A gigabyte should do it.  You can see some of the pre-built images here:

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/i386/usb-hdd/

Basically, download one of those images and then

dd if=downloaded_image.img of=/dev/sdX

(substitute your image name, and the device name of your USB drive)

Then make an additional partition on the USB disk with the remaining
space.  Format that partition and give it the label "live-rw", like this:

mkfs.ext2 -L live-rw /dev/sdX2  (substitute your device name)

This creates the persistence partition, to save all of your changes and
data.

-Rob