On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 07:06:51PM -0700, Mark wrote:
The only remaining advantage I see is that I can have my own customized OS on the stick. Is that your purpose?
So I want to give the user a Linux system that can boot from any PC. Instead of an expensive and fragile laptop, he gets a rugged USB hard drive.
ACK.
It seems a fairly easy addition to the cheatcode options that already exist. In some sense the idea generalizes the persistent home concept.
It shouldn't be that hard, right.
This would be cool from a technical point of view. But I see no real world example where it would be helpful.
Previous messages discuss the user scenario. Users carry a USB harddrive instead of a personal laptop. It will boot any PC. Sweet!
ACK.
when you have to use the CD for booting USB sticks, all advantages are gone.
You are right if the choice is only between grml-CD and grml-small for USB stick. Both of those are quasi-read-only ISO Linux systems. There is some 'persistent state' capability on a stick, true. But we have a third choice: grml-big on USB hard drive.
The hard drive is a "real" Linux system, not an ISO image on a stick. Even if the user is a sysadmin and not "granny" there are serious advantages.
The usb harddrive scenario rocks. I will write some code to test it with my usb harddisk installation. (My notebook is also too stupid to boot from usb) thx for your contribution.
greets Jimmy