Re: Installing to Flash Drive
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 03:29:51PM +0930, Heddle Weaver wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying a first time exercise, for me, here....attempting to mount a
> Lenny dist. onto a 32Gb Corsair flashdrive by way of a MS XP loaded P.C.
>
> Installation is fine until it comes to where the boot record is to be
> mounted, the installation programme not seeming to want to place it anywhere
> other than on the first IDE drive of the pc which is the property of an
> internet cafe and therefore not appropriate. The whole idea of having a
> flash drive is so that it's portable and I can plug it into any machine on
> the road, enjoying my O.S. of choice and cutting back on the degree of trace
> back, that is, privacy.
>
You might want to take a look at Debian Live, and make use of the
"persistence" feature. This will let you boot your flashdrive off of
any computer, not just the one in the internet cafe.
-Rob
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