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<p>I figured that installing from an install flash drive to another
is proper but wasn't sure. PureOS has just such instructions
though it's installing from a flash drive installer of the OS onto
a machine's drive. Obviously a remote drive would also work fine.</p>
<p>Thanks for doing all of the work you do Ted!</p>
<p>Brian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/30/20 9:40 AM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Brian &
Co., Great thread. Some years ago I had some help at the Glug
to get an install of Xubuntu on a 32GB flash drive. I have
also used Knoppix with its partition for saved settings and
pushed that to the limit by editing /etc/apt/sources.list. I
finally broke the saved settings and had to re-install a live
distro on that thumbdrive. I am currently using the 32GB
thumbdrive with the latest Xubuntu installed. I did it by
using a different live thumb to install to the 32GB. I don't
think you can install to the active live drive. Think about
the problems that would entail. My install to a single
partition is less than 10 GB, so I have some room to grow. I
did treat the session as a regular installation and that seems
to work. There are several web pages with advice on how to do
this. And as Tom pointed out a 64 GB thumbdrive is easily
available. Some of the original Chromebooks only have 64 GB,
so it would be similar to installing on such a system. I did
add "noresume" to the linux line in /etc/default/grub, so that
the flash wouldn't hang up looking for a previous hardware
arrangement. Also added a swapfile, I get a boot error message
on that, but after boot it shows up and seems to work, though
I have not had occasion to need the swap. <br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Give it a try
and see. The big thumbdrives are an opportunity to experiment.
Thank you, Ted P<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 8:47
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<p>PureOS provides an iso of the OS and instructions on how
to create an install flash drive for installation onto a
machine. With Vbox I installed to a virtual machine from
the iso as is normally done with Vbox. However the
instructions also stated that a live version can be used
when booting from the flash drive or it can be installed,
an installer on the desktop when running the live session.
Can it be installed to the same flash drive that's running
the live session? It seems like it could with the correct
partitioning. <br>
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<div>On 7/30/20 6:45 AM, Don Crowder wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I've got a copy of Slax on a thumb drive
and have used various live media distros on a flash
drive to install Linux on machines that didn't have
optical drives (or had optical drives that didn't work)
but if you install from optical media to a thumb drive
then GRUB is gonna want to know where that drive went
every time you boot up the machine.</div>
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<p>Install to a USB stick. A 64 GB USB 3.0 SanDisk
Ultra Flair is ideal. $15 at Walmart. Weighs
exactly 5 grams, same as a nickel. Great form
factor and mechanically solid: 3/16" x 7/16" x
1-1/4" and you can keep it stashed in your pocket
encrypted with all essential records and files for
use on multiple machines. Great for testing and
experimenting, redundancy, extra space, cheap
insurance, etc. Not that I'm a fan of Walmart or
that better deals can't be had, but certainly
cheaper and less hassle than another computer to
worry about.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks, I ran across it, as
GNU/Linux OS, a couple of days ago and was
curious about it but I don't currently have a
machine I'm willing to use for distro-hopping so
I did no more than read about it.</div>
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<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>I was poking around and looking at a
website specifically re: Gnu and the Hurd
OS. Hurd doesn't really work much at all
but there were 6 OSes listed that were
certified FOSS and approved by Stallman.
They each used the linux kernel. I
downloaded PureOS and installed in as a
virtual machine (in the non-FOSS Vbox).
After a few tweaks it was up and running
and I really like it. I would migrate to
it if I had a clue how to keep everything.
It's fast and clean, the FOSS browser
works perfectly. No issues with sound nor
anything else. It's Debian based so its
Gnome GUI is very familiar.</p>
<p>Just thought that I'd let you all know.</p>
<p>Ciao<br>
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