Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-06 Thread fred roller
I am with Tom. My 64Gb thumbdrive works Okay. The BUS is all wrong for the necessary throughput to give you fully comparable performance. USB (Universal Serial Bus vs. Parallel etc etc) but if you don't mind the performance hit the thumb drive, be it standard install or live install does well en

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-06 Thread Tom Horsley
Maybe you are using the wrong USB device? My sandisk "extreme USB 3.0" 64GB stick gets transfer rates comparable to a hard disk when used in my computer's USB 3 port. I haven't ever installed fedora on it, but I copy large ISO images on and off all the time with surprising speed. __

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-06 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/05/2017 03:30 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > > My last laptop had ESATA but there doesn't seem to be any ESATA SSD's > > available anymore, it looks like one company made one but they're > > discontinued. > > Newegg lists several ESATA SSDs.

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/05/2017 03:30 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Rick Stevens > wrote: > > On 10/05/2017 02:29 AM, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent: > >> Anybody have some success stories they can share?

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-05 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 10/05/2017 02:29 AM, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent: > >> Anybody have some success stories they can share? Ideas? > > > > I did, long ago, use a portable hard drive, with a straight > > installation

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-05 Thread Rick Stevens
On 10/05/2017 02:29 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent: >> Anybody have some success stories they can share? Ideas? > > I did, long ago, use a portable hard drive, with a straight > installation onto it, through a firewire connection into a friend's > Mac.

Re: Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-05 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 4 October 2017, Richard Shaw sent: > Anybody have some success stories they can share? Ideas? I did, long ago, use a portable hard drive, with a straight installation onto it, through a firewire connection into a friend's Mac. A hard drive, or SSD these days, would seem b

Portable Fedora that doesn't suck

2017-10-04 Thread Richard Shaw
For a couple of years now I've been trying on and off to come up with a method of running Fedora in a portable manner than is easy to keep up with, update, has decent performance, and doesn't suck :) A pure live USB method isn't easily updatable so doesn't meet the criteria A live USB with persis