Brian & Co., Great thread. Some years ago I had some help at the Glug to get an install of Xubuntu on a 32GB flash drive. I have also used Knoppix with its partition for saved settings and pushed that to the limit by editing /etc/apt/sources.list. I finally broke the saved settings and had to re-install a live distro on that thumbdrive. I am currently using the 32GB thumbdrive with the latest Xubuntu installed. I did it by using a different live thumb to install to the 32GB. I don't think you can install to the active live drive. Think about the problems that would entail. My install to a single partition is less than 10 GB, so I have some room to grow. I did treat the session as a regular installation and that seems to work. There are several web pages with advice on how to do this. And as Tom pointed out a 64 GB thumbdrive is easily available. Some of the original Chromebooks only have 64 GB, so it would be similar to installing on such a system. I did add "noresume" to the linux line in /etc/default/grub, so that the flash wouldn't hang up looking for a previous hardware arrangement. Also added a swapfile, I get a boot error message on that, but after boot it shows up and seems to work, though I have not had occasion to need the swap. Give it a try and see. The big thumbdrives are an opportunity to experiment. Thank you, Ted P On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 8:47 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
PureOS provides an iso of the OS and instructions on how to create an install flash drive for installation onto a machine. With Vbox I installed to a virtual machine from the iso as is normally done with Vbox. However the instructions also stated that a live version can be used when booting from the flash drive or it can be installed, an installer on the desktop when running the live session. Can it be installed to the same flash drive that's running the live session? It seems like it could with the correct partitioning. On 7/30/20 6:45 AM, Don Crowder wrote:
I've got a copy of Slax on a thumb drive and have used various live media distros on a flash drive to install Linux on machines that didn't have optical drives (or had optical drives that didn't work) but if you install from optical media to a thumb drive then GRUB is gonna want to know where that drive went every time you boot up the machine.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 8:56 PM Tom Ashcraft <trailerdog234@comcast.net> wrote:
Install to a USB stick. A 64 GB USB 3.0 SanDisk Ultra Flair is ideal. $15 at Walmart. Weighs exactly 5 grams, same as a nickel. Great form factor and mechanically solid: 3/16" x 7/16" x 1-1/4" and you can keep it stashed in your pocket encrypted with all essential records and files for use on multiple machines. Great for testing and experimenting, redundancy, extra space, cheap insurance, etc. Not that I'm a fan of Walmart or that better deals can't be had, but certainly cheaper and less hassle than another computer to worry about. On 7/29/20 1:39 PM, Don Crowder wrote:
Thanks, I ran across it, as GNU/Linux OS, a couple of days ago and was curious about it but I don't currently have a machine I'm willing to use for distro-hopping so I did no more than read about it.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:36 AM Brian O'Keefe <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
Hello All,
I was poking around and looking at a website specifically re: Gnu and the Hurd OS. Hurd doesn't really work much at all but there were 6 OSes listed that were certified FOSS and approved by Stallman. They each used the linux kernel. I downloaded PureOS and installed in as a virtual machine (in the non-FOSS Vbox). After a few tweaks it was up and running and I really like it. I would migrate to it if I had a clue how to keep everything. It's fast and clean, the FOSS browser works perfectly. No issues with sound nor anything else. It's Debian based so its Gnome GUI is very familiar.
Just thought that I'd let you all know.
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