tip: found a flash drive for direct install

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi All,

I finally found a flash drive I like for installing
Fedora directly (not live).  Flash drives break down
when a lot of small files go fly around and bog
the OS down and often corrupt.  I have had issues
with both Kanguru and Kingston drives.

I also test a Patriot drive.  They goof around with
parameters so that large file transfers give good
numbers at the expense of small file transfers
being so bad the stick almost unusable.  Fedora on
a Patriot was a joke.

On a lark I tried a Samsung MUF-64BE3/AM and a
Samsung MUF-64DA1/WW.  Both are USB 3.1.

And Wow.  On two customer machines running USB 2,
they preformed flawlessly.  Actually even faster than
the native Windows.  And no corruptions and no ten
minutes to shutdown Firefox.

On my own USB 3.0 machine, they ran almost as 1/2 as
fast as native (I have an NVMe drive).

Both these guys ate Fedora 28 Xfce x64 alive, meaning
it handled multiple small file transfers with ease.

Anyone want to know the special tweaks to run
off a USB drive, drop me a line.

-T


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[Samuel Sieb]

On 08/31/2018 04:10 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>  Anyone want to know the special tweaks to run
>  off a USB drive, drop me a line. 
Why not just post it?  That sounds like useful information.

[ToddAndMargo]

On 08/31/2018 10:13 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>  On 08/31/2018 04:10 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > Anyone want to know the special tweaks to run
> > off a USB drive, drop me a line.
>  
>  Why not just post it?  That sounds like useful information. 
Well, here is the parts to does not specifically refer to me:

If no root password is set:
       CUPS without an Admin password:
       /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
       Remard (#) out all the lines with "Require"

AFTER the first successful boot, to force the stick to scan for new hardware
on each boot, edit dracut:
       /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/01-dist.conf
       hostonly="no"

       And to keep dracut updates from overwriting the above line into
       /etc/dracut.conf.d/01-custom.conf

/etc/fstab: forces writing to occur immediately on execution of the 
command by adding
       "sync" after defaults (comma separated).  For example:

       UUID=977e3532-f988-483c-b6f6-476ac6e299c0 /     ext4 
defaults,sync 1 1
       UUID=479150af-f3cd-448c-bdad-a0b3c3aac778 /boot ext4 
defaults,sync 1 2
       UUID=4541ee45-9f7b-45f7-b239-b6e8d43f8a3e swap  swap 
defaults,sync 0 0


This is the software I like to install:

    # dnf install xterm firefox midori gdisk ntfsprogs chntpw 
gsmartcontrol \
      kde-runtime krusader libreoffice xscreensaver-base 
xscreensaver-extras \
      xscreensaver-extras-base xscreensaver-gl-base xscreensaver-gl-extras \
      file-roller system-config-printer gparted ark florence 
lm_sensors-libs \
      lm_sensors xsensors dmidecode hivex libhivex.so.0 libQtCore.so.4 \
      libQtGui.so.4 dump xfsdump gpart arp-scan rakudo rakudo-zef leafpad

    # dnf remove abiword
    # dnf install xdiskusage-1.48.1-15.2.x86_64.rpm 
fred-0.1.1-1.fc25.x86_64.rpm
    # dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade chntpw
    # dnf config-manager --add-repo 
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-rpm-release/x86_64/
    # rpm --import 
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-rpm-release/keys.asc
    # dnf install brave
    # dnf upgrade
    # dnf clean packages