Well, if you have to use a Mac (like I do in school), just hold down the
Alt/Option key and you will be able to select your flash drive.
Most non-Mac computers also have a key to select the boot medium (boot menu
or something similar) without going into the bios setup. I don't know if that
This BBC web site article by, amazingly a Click journalist, Click is the BBCs
technology programme so they should know better, implies a technology thats
been around for almost 15 years, the OS on a USB stick, is new and
revolutionary: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27346567
I've a
I think this is a good idea except for the google and proprietary software
parts. $7 doesn't buy much of a laptop these days.
It's just a persistent Live USB, which can be created using the Startup Disk
Creator. All you have to do is specify the ISO image and the size of the
persistence file.
I use a Trisquel live USB on the school Macs. The only problem is that the
wifi requires nonfree firmware, so I carry my USB
Most if not all computers are set to not boot from the USB and the BIOS setup
is locked where I live.