I'm playing with the idea of copying my laptop's debian lenny partition to a USB stick that I can take with me when traveling.
Since I can't be sure I'll have a machine with available space on the HDD or be allowed to partition the drive, what I thought was that I could have a bootable system on the USB stick and boot into it pretty much as I would off of a live CD. What I had in mind was as simple as: . clone the lenny partition to /dev/sda1 . install grub to /dev/sda . make adjustments to the contents of /dev/sda1 The trouble is that I don't have a machine that can boot off of a USB stick to test ahead of time. Adjustments that I had in mind: . /etc/fstab . /boot/grub/menu.lst (grub.cfg with grub2) Naturally, reconfiguring network & internet access, Xorg, printers, etc. will be necessary, but they cannot be done ahead of time - although it may be possible to make it less of a pain with some preparation and a bit of scripting. Since I'm running the stock lenny kernel, I shouldn't have problems with differences in hardware, but I'm a little concerned that udev might not cooperate. I'm sure there are other issues, but unfortunately, I can't take the trial and error approach. So, I was wondering if anyone had done anything comparable, and would care to point out possible gotchas? Thanks, CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org