I've been swamped for a few days: Sorry it took me a while to get back to this Thread.
On Sat 26 Oct 2019 at 12:33:52 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but
> I'm hoping for more.
>
> I'd like to format my USB Drive into, at least three Partitions, preferably
> using msdos Partitioning (so it can Boot from older systems). The
> Partitions are Root, Swap and Home. So far, so good, I've done this
> before.
>
> What is different this time, is that I'd like to be able to Boot this from
> different Systems, probing their Network, Sound, Video, Keyboard and Mouse
> systems on Bootup, but leaving any Local Hard Drives alone. Existing
> systems do this, for example, Knoppix, but it's doing a "Mini Install" each
> time. I'd like to, only have the Hardware testing, but not the rest of the
> Install occurring. Also, this allows me to have Static Data (i.e Logs),
> saved from System to System. Sort of like a "Super Rescue System".
Would you please explain what you mean by "...leaving any Local Hard
Drives alone."?
For one thing, I don't want it to, for example, "notice" a Swap Partition on the Internal Hard Drive and try to use it. In other words, sort of like a Live DVD, but with space to save data from the system, being rescued.
> Are you with me so far? Have people done this?
I think I have so.
Thanks. Now, let me look at some other responses.
Kenneth Parker