<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hi Bob, not sure if I am interpreting your question correctly, but if I am, this has been my experience -- <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">See, I wanted to have a GNU/Linux/DE on a bootable SD card or USB stick. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Googling around, I could not find a solution that didn't involve using a bootable USB stick with the install image on it as the source.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">- Checking the SD speeds, I decided against using an SD card and went with a USB2/3 128G stick instead</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">- My Thinkpad X220/T420s/W520 BIOSes(fully updated) units could not boot off an SD, so the decision was made for me to do the USB stick<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">- I installed Debian9(Xfce DE)from a USB stick to a USB3 128G stick without swap to minimize writes to the USB stick<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">- I installed all my usual apps, synched my Firefox-ESR browser, got my synch folders set up<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">- I tried the 120G USB stick on said Thinkpads...perfection, although real slow on a real old X61s, but serviceable in a pinch<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">- I then tried it out on an older HP with a 3rd Gen i5 CPU and yup, worked a charm, BT failed for some reason, but I didn't care<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Why go though all of this? Well, it was dead easy, not terribly time-consuming and I thought it might be a good idea to see how well it works in case it become necessary to use a solution like this when crossing borders. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">After all, a USB stick dangling from a necklace is just a bit of ghetto bling, no?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 12:17 AM, Bob Jonkman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bjonkman@sobac.com" target="_blank">bjonkman@sobac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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Hi: I'm running a regular desktop GNU/Linux, and I want to install<br>
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Is there a package that will run the installer in a normal environment<br>
to let me install GNU/Linux on an arbitrary device?<br>
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