On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:41:08 +0000 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:34:54 Steve Matzura wrote: > > The USB thumb drive idea was just something I > > thought I would try to make work because it's convenient to carry it > > around and use on various hardwares I encounter on a regular basis > > in my travels as the itinerant accessible computing guy. > > Now that is not really suitable for the net-install CD because the > Internet connection could be ropy. > Two different things. 'Install from net' does not mean 'run from net'. I have a small mechanical USB hard drive which was originally booted from a netinstall, but by the time I had finished installing (plugged into an amd64 workstation) it would boot on practically anything i386-based. I did a 32-bit installation, and asked for all drivers at the appropriate time. I've only found one PC on which it won't boot. I travel with a Win8 laptop, for various reasons, and if I want to use public wifi, I boot it from this external drive, thereby avoiding the whole Win8-dual-boot can of worms. -- Joe
