1. Use the distro iso to boot gui/text terminal. Most distros are
"live", so you don't need a separate "rescue" disk.
2. Use Ventoy. It creates 2 partitions on USB stick, one Linux stuffs,
and the other Windows partitions where you drop iso files. When you
boot, you can select which iso you want to boot from. It works on some
computers, but not all.
On 2023-09-19 23:22, bitmap via talk wrote:
I'd really like to have a good USB key to boot from when some kind of
problem happens. Typically I use whatever installation media is lying
around but they have really limited tools available. Not to mention tres
obnoxious defaults like transparent terminals. Drive me nuts when some
catastrophe is going on and the terminal is resetting to 50% opacity at
every reboot.
Is there some kind of general purpose image that has a variety of
programs, maybe even foundational documentation on board, etc, that is
designed for this? There are images like clonezilla to solve specific
problems but that's another story. I would like a multi tool on hand.
My research tells me that by booting from USB media, it's possible to
install on a connected drive of any sort. Normally you use the internal
hd but can use another external drive. Then you have a persistent
bootable USB where you can install stuff + store files. *However* it is
unique to that device so it'd be required to set up a USB key for each
one. Not ideal although possibly worthwhile for the main computer.
Any advice on this issue? Seems like I wouldn't have been the first
person to have this idea. Is it a bad idea? Why? If not, how to set up?
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