I feel like a newbie here. I've used linux since Mandrake, but latest developments seem to be leaving me behind. Now of Pension age, I'm partaking of 'Respite', a week or so a few times a year at a Retirement Home, and want to keep up with my 'net activities. To this end, I 'm looking for a way to create a Live USB (pendrive) customised to my requirements, and secure. The Home has a good 'all-in-one' Win10 (c/- free upgrade from 7), But using this would be insecure and upset settings for other users.
I've set up a Kubi system dual-boot, but this brings up a Grub screen. I've managed to set it to 1 second timeout and default to boot Win10 (Vista boot - Yuck, when will m$loth do something about this?), but can't find a means of fully hiding it until a keypress or SuperGrub disk during bootup. My search for this has led be to doubt my ability to remove Grub and revert should I wish to delete this system.
On my home system, I boot to Kubi using a SuperGrub CD. Without it, the system boots to Win10 (similar upgrade). Grub there is installed on the Kubi patition, but the install at the Home didn't give me that option (wonder why?), so the original bootloader got trounced by Grub.
Methods to restore original boot for latest Win systems seem to all involve having an original Install disk. What if you haven't? Of course I'm not sysadmin for the Home, and my own system was bought pre-installed - and no Install disk supplied. Xp disks were a dime a dozen. not so for these latest ones.
Now to the real deal: Live CD/DVD images for 15.10 (or anything post-14.04) seem to be as rare as hens' teeth. Add to that, I've yet to have a successful boot of a (Try/Install, they seem to be the only available images) USB created under the running 15.10. I've had success with UUI on Win10, but still a Try/Install USB, not a personal/custom/secure one. Can I personalise one of these? with a login screen replacing the Try/Install choice? (Install would still be an option from Desktop or Menu - I really fail to see the need).
Any pointers, anyone?
I've set up a Kubi system dual-boot, but this brings up a Grub screen. I've managed to set it to 1 second timeout and default to boot Win10 (Vista boot - Yuck, when will m$loth do something about this?), but can't find a means of fully hiding it until a keypress or SuperGrub disk during bootup. My search for this has led be to doubt my ability to remove Grub and revert should I wish to delete this system.
On my home system, I boot to Kubi using a SuperGrub CD. Without it, the system boots to Win10 (similar upgrade). Grub there is installed on the Kubi patition, but the install at the Home didn't give me that option (wonder why?), so the original bootloader got trounced by Grub.
Methods to restore original boot for latest Win systems seem to all involve having an original Install disk. What if you haven't? Of course I'm not sysadmin for the Home, and my own system was bought pre-installed - and no Install disk supplied. Xp disks were a dime a dozen. not so for these latest ones.
Now to the real deal: Live CD/DVD images for 15.10 (or anything post-14.04) seem to be as rare as hens' teeth. Add to that, I've yet to have a successful boot of a (Try/Install, they seem to be the only available images) USB created under the running 15.10. I've had success with UUI on Win10, but still a Try/Install USB, not a personal/custom/secure one. Can I personalise one of these? with a login screen replacing the Try/Install choice? (Install would still be an option from Desktop or Menu - I really fail to see the need).
Any pointers, anyone?
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