Re: xfce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 1

[Corey Sheldon]

what is the size of your usb stick if its > 5G you'll be fine from the live
usb just point install AND grub to the usb stick and run pc from usb (in
bois) when you wish to run that system and just mount memory or drives on
pc as needed

Feel free to pm or gmail me if you need more detailed tutorial

Corey W Sheldon
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> Re: install to flash drive (ToddAndMargo)
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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:08:25 -0700
> From: ToddAndMargo 
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> On 03/30/2014 02:34 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have been playing with "Fedora Live USB Creator".
> > I don't like the space limitations on the Live USB
> > drive as I am always wanting to install more than
> > will fit on /dev/vsd1
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, could I boot from the Xfce Live
> > CD and install to a flash drive?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > -T
>
> Oops.  That is /dev/vda1 not vsd1
>
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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:14:59 -0500
> From: Mukundan Ragavan 
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> Subject: Re: install to flash drive
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> On 03/31/2014 04:08 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > On 03/30/2014 02:34 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I have been playing with "Fedora Live USB Creator". I don't like
> > > the space limitations on the Live USB drive as I am always
> > > wanting to install more than will fit on /dev/vsd1
> > >
> > > Just out of curiosity, could I boot from the Xfce Live CD and
> > > install to a flash drive?
> > >
> > > Many thanks, -T
> >
> > Oops.  That is /dev/vda1 not vsd1
>
> As far as I know, if you boot from a CD, you should be able to install
> to an external USB drive. Should be possible, yes.
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> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:45:05 -0700
> From: ToddAndMargo 
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> On 03/31/2014 02:14 PM, Mukundan Ragavan wrote:
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> > On 03/31/2014 04:08 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > > On 03/30/2014 02:34 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I have been playing with "Fedora Live USB Creator". I don't like
> > > > the space limitations on the Live USB drive as I am always
> > > > wanting to install more than will fit on /dev/vsd1
> > > >
> > > > Just out of curiosity, could I boot from the Xfce Live CD and
> > > > install to a flash drive?
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks, -T
> > >
> > > Oops.  That is /dev/vda1 not vsd1
> >
> > As far as I know, if you boot from a CD, you should be able to install
> > to an external USB drive. Should be possible, yes.
>
> From what the fedora people are telling me, it had
> better to /dev/sda or it won't work.  If the local
> hard drive(s) get your device, then you can't boot.
>
> It might be better for me to stick with the Live USB
> and figure out a way to expand /dev/vda1.  Seems
> vda1 is limited to 3 GB.  Gparted doesn't find it
> either.
>
> And I goofed.  It is /dev/mapper/live-rw that is too
> small.  vda1 has lot of room.
>
> $ df -kPT
> Filesystem          Type     1024-blocks    Used Available Capacity
> Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/live-rw ext4         3030800 2322644    660320      78% /
>
> -T
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