On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:59:21PM EST, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:19:56PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> > I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny > > partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling. > > > > Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on > > the HDD or be allowed to partition the drive, what I thought was > > that I could have a bootable system on the USB stick and boot into > > it pretty much as I would off of a live CD. [..] > I'm not sure that what you're planning won't work, but if I were you > I'd do it like this: > > Create a live USB system (see my instructions in the "live cd/usb > projects" thread). Install all the same software as your current > laptop ha. Then transfer over your data. What I had in mind was more like a "bootable backup". I tried Debian Live before and it does not do that. IIRC, ubuntu has something that does this, but I don't remember the name right now, and it probably would not work for a debian system. > Supposedly you can test your USB image using Qemu, although I've never > done it myself. > http://live.debian.net/manual/html/ch03s03.html#id2911160 I tried qemu when I was trying to get Debian Live to work but all it did was it went to 100% and stayed there doing nothing. I didn't have the time to investigate, but I have a feeling you need more RAM than I have to run a VM under qemu - just to boot one, even. Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
