Hi, > I am still not convinced that $350 will be a major obstacle.
$350 sound quite a lot to me and buying a whole new computer for the sake of this seems quite wasteful as well. Buying a USB key of USB drive would be cheaper. Debian live [1] can install live systems on USB keys and HDDs as well [2]. You could even install a real Debian system on a HDD drive. The installation process probably won't be so easy however (which means you might not want them to do the installation). > The Live CDs sounds interesting, but then all configuration is lost, > I think, when the CD is rebooted? You can enable some form of persistence even on Debian live CDs [3] by using a USB key or a file one of the existing (NTFS) partition. You can use /home on a USB key as well. Another solution is to create the partitions for you Linux system as files on the disk of the exiting partitions. There is even a tool for this [4]. It's going to work mush better than a VM if the computer does not have hardware support for virtualization and enough RAM. I used this once and the installation process was very easy. [1] http://live.debian.net/ [2] http://live.debian.net/manual/1.x/html/ch03s03.html [3] http://live.debian.net/manual/1.x/html/persistence.html [4] https://wiki.debian.org/fr/DebianInstaller/Loader -- Gabriel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150708070628.GA3009@marvin
