[TriLUG] booting off usbstick

[Pete Soper via TriLUG]

This doesn't apply to you, Joe, but with Raspberry Pi it was (maybe 
still is) trivial to boot off the default media and then hand off 
everything else to another device. I wondered if this was what you were 
out to do with what I guess is a typical PC 'cause it seems like a very 
cool thing. Having root on the stick doesn't seem as cool to me but 
cloning them is trivial with dd as Roger mentioned and the price can't 
be beat these days. Hopefully the missing bits were the issue and you'll 
be on your way now.

I recently bought a retail copy of Windows 10 on a "stick" and maybe I 
can clone it with dd so I don't have to fret about my daughter losing it 
(built a new machine for her to do graduate GIS work with). If this 
works and I use a  stick with a lanyard thing on the end I can wire it 
into the case so it cannot be lost. I want her to take that along with 
her from new machine to new machine so the Microsoft purchase is 
singleton. :-) Thanks for the serendipity!

-Pete


On 7/11/20 1:46 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2020, Pete Soper via TriLUG wrote:
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> both on the stick. I want everything except the storage on the stick.
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> Joe
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>> Well the question burning in my mind, Joe, is whether you just want 
>> to boot off the stick or whether your root filesystem is going to be 
>> on the stick too?
>> -Pete
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