A reply in a recent thread {"Re: web front end: requested
HDD, got hybrid-iso"} got me rethinking some past
difficulties with using Live CD's in my environment.
Ben Armstrong wrote:> On 25/02/13 04:09 PM, Richard Nelson
wrote:
Not sure. I might mention that the hybrid iso image should be
compatible with usb keys as well.
Not merely compatible, but also because we switched to xorriso, you can
repartition the usb key after writing the image to the usb key and use
the remaining space (e.g. for persistence). So that scratches another
reason off the list for using hdd.
Ben
I have two problems to address:
I. Creating media in a Windows(tm) *ONLY* environment.
A. The *ONLY* wide band access I have is using a Windows
machine - read local public library.
B. At home I've a laptop physically dedicated to my Linux
experiments. At any time it can not be
presumed to have an operable system.
C. My home Windows machine shall not dual boot Linux - how
do you keep Linux newbie errors
from corrupting must have primary machine, don't take
the chance.
D. I see the need for a "low pain" migration path from
Windows.
Is there a native Windows method to accomplish the same
thing as
Quoting from http://blog.einval.com/2011/01/07
"
Instead of having to specially prepare USB sticks for the
installer, you can now simply use dd to write the image
straight to the raw stick, e.g.:
# dd if=debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdX
The USB stick should now boot directly, showing exactly the
same bootup screen as if you'd written the image directly to
a CD. Yay!
"
II. It would be convenient to have a Live Distro reside on
a USB stick but have "persistence" and "swap" reside on a
local harddrive. I would want the USB stick to wander
between machines and possibly transport data files. Is this
feasible?
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