On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 03:29:51PM +0930, Heddle Weaver wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying a first time exercise, for me, here....attempting to mount a > Lenny dist. onto a 32Gb Corsair flashdrive by way of a MS XP loaded P.C. > > Installation is fine until it comes to where the boot record is to be > mounted, the installation programme not seeming to want to place it anywhere > other than on the first IDE drive of the pc which is the property of an > internet cafe and therefore not appropriate. The whole idea of having a > flash drive is so that it's portable and I can plug it into any machine on > the road, enjoying my O.S. of choice and cutting back on the degree of trace > back, that is, privacy. > You might want to take a look at Debian Live, and make use of the "persistence" feature. This will let you boot your flashdrive off of any computer, not just the one in the internet cafe.
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