Re: Thumb Drive Question

2018-03-21 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 03/21/2018 07:08 AM, Beartooth wrote: All of / on my main machine will go easily onto even a modest thumb drive -- "df -h /" says only 11 GB; meseems I've heard of other people keeping back-ups on thumb drives. But what about the OS? If I were to put, say, the current releas

Re: Thumb Drive Question

2018-03-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/21/2018 07:08 AM, Beartooth wrote: But what about the OS? If I were to put, say, the current release of Fedora onto the same stick, would I be able to use that, while visiting in-laws for instance, as if it were a live CD =with= all my data? You can certainly install Fedora to a

Re: Thumb Drive Question

2018-03-21 Thread fred roller
1 - Would be the same as if you migrated the whole of / to a new build. Pros/Cons come with it, esp the Cons as it can get buggy but works for the most part. 2 - You would be making a live thumb drive because installing as a system it would be looking for the hardware of that system at boot. 3 - My