On Wed, November 25, 2015 9:37 pm, David Christensen wrote: > No, I'm talking about disconnecting all hard disk drives and solid state > drives, plugging in a USB flash drive, booting a Debian installer CD, and > installing Debian onto the USB flash drive. Debian then runs from the USB > flash drive as if it were a HDD/ SDD -- e.g. /dev/sda. Next, I install > whatever tasksel package sets I want, install whatever apt/ dpkg/ *.deb > packages I want, install whatever other software I want, and configure > things how I want. I now have a USB flash drive that I can boot in most > other machines (up to ~10 years old) and have a Debian environment with > exactly what I want.
Which arrangement sounds like exactly what I wished to find. Thanks much; I shall give it a try. Dare I ask whether this would work with a USB-interface drive such as the Toshiba Canvio Connect II (reformatted, for example, to ext4)? Russ
