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Re: How to get Debian live running from flash with persistence



On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> hope this is the right forum for my question.
>>
>> I wanted to use Debian live
>> (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop
>> installed on a flash drive with full persistence.
>>
> I used to use Debian Live with persistence, but lately I've changed to a
> much easier method.  Now I just do a normal Debian install but install
> it to a USB stick instead of a hard drive.  Works fine.  I make some
> tweaks to improve performance, such as mounting various folders at
> tmpfs.  But it works pretty well even without those tweaks.
>
> Just make sure you install grub to the USB stick and not to the hard
> drive of whatever computer you're using for the installation.
>

+1.  I have been doing the same and works very well.

-- 
Arun Khan
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