If I run Linux from a 128GB usb thumb drive.....Can I install it to the thumb drive? Or is that only for demo purposes? Does it have to be installed on a dedicated hdd? If I'm running it from iso on a usb thumb drive, I assume I can save my files and bookmarks and things to a folder on the same thumb drive and then......
(here is the money question)
Does that mean my Linux "install" is portable? I can take it to another computer and (assuming I can boot to usb from that computer) run it on that machine, and all of my files and bookmarks etc. will still be there? Will the Linux running from iso on the thumb drive also be able to utilize the other 120+GB of space left on that thumb drive? What might be the factors that would prevent me from doing a "portable Linux" this way?
If that is a viable way to use Linux on a thumb drive, then this has real possibilities for making me portable and far more versatile. I can imagine using Linux to fix a friend's machine by booting to thumb drive and using it to run (for example) an anti virus scan on his whacked out hard drive.
(here is the money question)
Does that mean my Linux "install" is portable? I can take it to another computer and (assuming I can boot to usb from that computer) run it on that machine, and all of my files and bookmarks etc. will still be there? Will the Linux running from iso on the thumb drive also be able to utilize the other 120+GB of space left on that thumb drive? What might be the factors that would prevent me from doing a "portable Linux" this way?
If that is a viable way to use Linux on a thumb drive, then this has real possibilities for making me portable and far more versatile. I can imagine using Linux to fix a friend's machine by booting to thumb drive and using it to run (for example) an anti virus scan on his whacked out hard drive.
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