On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 21:13:44 -0700,
ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo(a)zoho.com> wrote:
The current stick I am using is 16 GB.
You should be able to do a normal install with 16 GB. (Though you can use
a lot more than that if you install enough packages.)
I use the Live USB as rescue disk at my customer sites (mostly
to save Windows computers). I had though of installing directly,
but have been told that I can not expect that /dev/sda will
always be the stick.
That shouldn't matter for booting. The device should be known by its UUID.
(The install process will set that up as a kernel parameter. You shouldn't
have to do anything special for that.)
There might be some machines that will boot off the device with a FAT
file system, but not with other file systems. But I suspect that would be
limited to older machines.