Re: debianlive iso with xfce and clamav
On Wed, November 25, 2015 9:37 pm, David Christensen wrote:
> No, I'm talking about disconnecting all hard disk drives and solid state
> drives, plugging in a USB flash drive, booting a Debian installer CD, and
> installing Debian onto the USB flash drive. Debian then runs from the USB
> flash drive as if it were a HDD/ SDD -- e.g. /dev/sda. Next, I install
> whatever tasksel package sets I want, install whatever apt/ dpkg/ *.deb
> packages I want, install whatever other software I want, and configure
> things how I want. I now have a USB flash drive that I can boot in most
> other machines (up to ~10 years old) and have a Debian environment with
> exactly what I want.
Which arrangement sounds like exactly what I wished to find. Thanks much;
I shall give it a try.
Dare I ask whether this would work with a USB-interface drive such as the
Toshiba Canvio Connect II (reformatted, for example, to ext4)?
Russ
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