-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-25 15:56, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 07/24/2015 02:00 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
By booting the big ISO, be it on a DVD or on a USB stick, you can install the distribution, or, choose to upgrade an existing one. Of course, after the system offline upgrade, you have to do an online update to install all patches made since release date.
Hmm. Suppose I load the ISO onto a USB stick and make that bootable.
Actually, you just copy the ISO into the stick: cp opensuse.iso /dev/sdb that's all. It is already bootable.
Does that make it a "Live" system? No, I didn't think so.
well, yes, it is, but... there are several kinds.
There was a thread about that a couple of years back https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/485658-Persistence-and-Live-Opens...
You can use the LiveCD and put that on a stick https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick but my recollection is that it is a limited system, suitable for 'evaluation' and installation of the base system which you then upgrade, but not really a "portable Linux".
The gnome, kde and xfce "lives", when placed in an usb stick, create a persistent partition on the first boot. The gnome and kde lives have an installation system, but not the xfce one, which is intended for rescue work only. None of them can be used for /upgrading/ the system; for that you need the big image, 4.7 GB. All of them can be placed on DVD (or a CD if size fits), or a USB stick, which is automatically bootable.
So what about a full installation with persistent /home on a stick, a "portable Linux"?
Well you could do a perfectly normal install ... just do it onto the USB stick instead of the hard drive.
Yes, you can.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-suse-flash-drive-install/
Is there a better way?
Well, distros can be optimized for that use. You have to reduce the number of writes, for instance. Syslog and others. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlW0C0MACgkQja8UbcUWM1xqtgD+L0dZWyOpvpfcJwkXDI2ue3jA ypbhl51cPRtS2IDG55gA/jaf2qOFzb6Xur8Mk5dUV6IavjdFWfLdcMCATbkM5pal =p3lh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org