Thanks so much for your answer!
On 07/14/2012 08:00 PM, Brian wrote:
Use extlinux/syslinux by all means if you wish, but being able boot a
USB stick on any computer is certainly possible.
Great! I tried again! This time I specified /dev/sdb1/ to set grub, and
now I can boot from the USB flashdrive.
I've done it at least
half a dozen times today.
So now I have my flashdrive set up, I'll be able to use it at work and
do my development work on it rather than a virtualbox in windows! :-D
One question though: I have 8G of RAM at work so I don't think not
having a swap an issue. Nevertheless, it seems like things freeze a
little bit when there's a lot of read/write on the flashdrive. So I
thought maybe you'd have some advice on how to optimize the actual use
of the OS on the flashdrive. I should have access to the Windows
partition of the harddrive there, so maybe it would be wise to move some
files there? I wonder if the use of the /tmp directory in the flashdrive
slows down the UI when using certain programs. Maybe I could move it and
some other key directories to the windows harddrive?
Anything you'd like to recommend? :-) If you know of good documentation
or resource on this, it would be great as well! Thanks!
Loic
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