On Wednesday 30 December 2015 20:32:30 Joe wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:41:08 +0000 > > Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:54 Steve Matzura wrote: > > > The USB thumb drive idea was just something I > > > thought I would try to make work because it's convenient to carry it > > > around and use on various hardwares I encounter on a regular basis > > > in my travels as the itinerant accessible computing guy. > > > > Now that is not really suitable for the net-install CD because the > > Internet connection could be ropy. > > Two different things. 'Install from net' does not mean 'run from net'.
Obviously. But we are specifically talking about installation here. > > I have a small mechanical USB hard drive which was originally booted > from a netinstall, but by the time I had finished installing (plugged > into an amd64 workstation) it would boot on practically anything > i386-based. I did a 32-bit installation, and asked for all drivers at > the appropriate time. I've only found one PC on which it won't boot. > > I travel with a Win8 laptop, for various reasons, and if I want to use > public wifi, I boot it from this external drive, thereby avoiding the > whole Win8-dual-boot can of worms.