Tom H wrote:
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:Tom H wrote:On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:Come to think of it, that's a good point - and even relevant to Linux advocacy. I don't think I've ever seen a live CD for either Windows or MacOS (well, the install DVD sort of is, but...). And I sure as heck don't think you can get Windows or MacOS to run off a USB stick. On the other hand, I CAN carry a full copy of Linux (or BSD) on my keyring - for some applications that's kind of useful.You can boot OS X from a USB stick!Really? Can you point me at build directions?It's so simple, I doubt that there's any howto anywhere. You just point the OS X installer to the USB disk!
Doooh (sound of hand slapping head)..... that makes sense.Of course we're talking a pretty big USB disk; probably at the high end of what you can do with a solid state keychain USB stick. Also, still tied to Mac hardware. Probably can't, for example, walk into a library and boot one of the machines from MacOnUSB, the way you can from a small live version of Linux.
Miles -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra