I am not sure if I understand you. You say that your machine can't boot from flash drives, but then say that usb hard drive may work, but are too expensive. Can you BIOS handle booting from usb? If so, then a usb pendrive should work as well as a usb hard drive. This is what is confusing me.
Roy On 24 March 2010 10:33, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mar 24, 7:43 am, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > > They are actual distributions that include the kernel and modules > necessary > > to make it run. They are limited only because the medium they are > > distributed on is read only. You can copy the same ISO to a usb stick and > > make it writable by adding persistence (see: pendrivelinux.com) and it > is > > not any different from having it installed to a hard drive. You can > install > > applications and save data. > > > > Yeah, I wish I could do that. Taking the CDs out of the drive can be > a struggle when you restart the machine. My current machine can't > boot from flash drives. If I buy a usb hard drive, then it might > work. But those aren't exactly cheap. They seem to cost considerably > more than regular hard drives. > > It would be cool to put an army of live cds on one usb hard drive, and > then create a boot option letting you select which one you want to > use. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
