I've been swamped for a few days: Sorry it took me a while to get back to this Thread.
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 1:32 PM Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 26 Oct 2019 at 12:33:52 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > What I want, is almost there (put a Live Buster DVD on a USB Drive), but > > I'm hoping for more. > > > > I'd like to format my USB Drive into, at least three Partitions, > preferably > > using msdos Partitioning (so it can Boot from older systems). The > > Partitions are Root, Swap and Home. So far, so good, I've done this > > before. > > > > What is different this time, is that I'd like to be able to Boot this > from > > different Systems, probing their Network, Sound, Video, Keyboard and > Mouse > > systems on Bootup, but leaving any Local Hard Drives alone. Existing > > systems do this, for example, Knoppix, but it's doing a "Mini Install" > each > > time. I'd like to, only have the Hardware testing, but not the rest of > the > > Install occurring. Also, this allows me to have Static Data (i.e Logs), > > saved from System to System. Sort of like a "Super Rescue System". > > Would you please explain what you mean by "...leaving any Local Hard > Drives alone."? > For one thing, I don't want it to, for example, "notice" a Swap Partition on the Internal Hard Drive and try to use it. In other words, sort of like a Live DVD, but with space to save data from the system, being rescued. > > > Are you with me so far? Have people done this? > > I think I have so. > Thanks. Now, let me look at some other responses. Kenneth Parker
