Can Trisquel live on a stick?
I am loving Trisquel! It is super slick. What I am wondering if it I could fully install it on a USB stick. I have been using a live boot USB but it breaks when I install new software into it. Any ideas?
What do you mean?
Did you install it on your PC/Laptop? Is it the only iOS running?
Which version do you have of Trisquel?
How does it 'break' when you install new software? How do you install new software?
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When it came out this year in April I installed Debian Jessie on a USB stick. That was very simple. You need just to follow the instructions on screen, select the USB stick as hard-drive. The only thing you need to pay attention to is where to install GRUB. If I remember correctly I installed it firs on the USB stick itself but then could not manage to boot it. Then I reinstalled Debian again and the second time I selected the laptop's hardrive so that GRUB was updated with the entry for Debian.
You need to make a usb stick with "persistence", i,e, a {partition labeled,file named} casper-rw. Then it will remember your changes.
The graphical tools might work or then you could do it manually.
Ha ha! You da man! Ahem, I mean, thank you good Sir. I greatly appreciate that you have taken the time to share your expertise.
Be aware a USB stick will quickly die if you write a lot to it (logs for instance).
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Banana Magique: http://www.zdnet.com/article/usb-drive-life-fact-or-fiction/
If that test is reliable I wouldn't say it will die **quickly**
:P
hi Magic Banana
i'm useing Trisquel on a stick Mndhu 2 years
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Hi Heather!
When I installed Debian on the USB stick with GRUB on it I'm pretty sure I tried to boot the stick first in BIOS but for some reason that didn't work. It's normal old BIOS and the option to boot a live distro works but somehow booting that DebianOnStick I did not manage to do.
cheers