[Gllug] Using external USB drive/stick for OS

[Dennis Furey]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:31:20AM +0000, Christopher Currie wrote:

> If you want the stick to be a genuinely portable OS, then there's much more of 
> a problem, since some laptops won't boot from the USB, and others change 
> drive assignations arbitrarily. I solved this with the Grub CD idea, but even 
> that doesn't work on all PCs.
> 
> Maybe someone has solved this problem in the year or so since I looked at it, 
> but if so it's news to me.
> 

Yes someone has, as explained here.

http://feraga.com/node/94

The trick is to identify the drive by its uuid. The rest of the
tutorial about installing Debian on a memory stick is very good and
worked for me, but I gave up later when the memory stick proved to be
too slow and unreliable for normal use.

Dennis

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