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
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?
I do it all the time. I use a thumb drives and 240 GB flash
drives installed in USB3.1 carriers.
You boot off whatever GUI and OS you want from a Live USB,
then install to disk. Select the flash drive or usb drive.
WARNINGS:
1) DO NOT REMOVE THE DRIVE UNTIL THE SYSTEM POWERS OFF !!!
2) DO NOT PLUG INTO A RUNNING WINDOWS SYSTEM !!!
Don't ask. Learned the hard way. Been there; done that;
don't want to do it again.