Hi Rob, > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 08:50:06PM +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > hope this is the right forum for my question. > > > > I wanted to use Debian live > > (http://live-build.debian.net/cgi-bin/live-build) on a 468 Laptop > > installed on a flash drive with full persistence. > > > I used to use Debian Live with persistence, but lately I've changed to a > much easier method. Now I just do a normal Debian install but install > it to a USB stick instead of a hard drive. Works fine. I make some > tweaks to improve performance, such as mounting various folders at > tmpfs. But it works pretty well even without those tweaks. > > Just make sure you install grub to the USB stick and not to the hard > drive of whatever computer you're using for the installation.
Good advice, thanks. However, I don't want to do that in this case - because it's my business notebook. When I upgrade the system after some time has passed - it might happen that grub is installed to the hdd and the notebook won't start anymore. So I'll try to get live work first. Thanks, Michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d2tw3p88....@web.de
