[Tfug] Booting from USB Harddrive

[Charles R. Kiss]

The live CD is kinda slow for extended usage; over a few days.  Suppose I just install everything once (before I leave, just create a root partition... dd parts of my old harddrive), and then, if the kernel is recompiled with the new hardware, it just boots back up again, and works, right?  Provided the hypothetical parents' computer can take it. Right? 

With the root, swap and home partition already installed with the apps on root, I just go through the "timezone", "language," and the "configure hardware" steps and skip the partitioning and package installations, right?  

If I just dd the stuff over and head to the parents house and recompile with the installation disk, is that the idea? 

Well, I'll be sure to take a LIVE CD with me, just in case.

Thanks,
charles 



>your mileage may vary but if your hypothetical parents have an older
>computer it may not be happy booting from usb.  i have lost much
>hair trying to do the same.
>
>best of luck

Thanx

>On 10/27/06, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:01:03PM -0400, Charles R. Kiss wrote:
>>
>>>> > Say one is leaving town for Thanksgiving, and one doesn't want to take
>>>> > one's laptop.
>>>> >
>>>> > Is it possible, instead to take ones external harddrive (200GB) that
>>>> > contains boot, swap, and operating system partitions?  Like a portable
>>>> > operating system disk with personal data one can take on the road, say
>>>> > to your parents house during the Thanksgiving holiday, plug the USB into
>>>> > back, change the BIOS settings to boot the external harddrive, into the
>>>> > installation menu, etc.
>>
>>>
>>> Why not just take the portable drive and a live cd?
>>>
>>> Claude