Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Try Linux from USB drive

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Dienstag 28 April 2009 07:39:14 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > Just to clarify one thing - The USB drive you make with UNetbootin, while
> > in theory it should boot on any machine, depends on having given the
> > bootloader (grub) the values for sda1 / sdb1 that are correct. If you
> > take this stick to boot another machine, you may need skills in command
> > line grub.
>
> I had good experiences with Privatix
>
>      http://mandalka.name/privatix/
>
> which has solved exactly this Problem on top of a Debian Live system.  I
> remember that at these pages also was given a description what has to be
> changed in the device mapper to solve the different computer / different
> drive ID problem - but I do not remember where exactly.
>
> If you might fail to find the relevant piece contacting the author might
> most probably be helpful.  If I understood right what privatix does is:
>
>    - create a debian-life profile containing all encryption / privacy stuff
>      in Debian Lenny
>    - add a small piece of code to make sure it works on every computer with
>      an USB stick
>
> If you understand the principle just adding GNUmed might be cheap.

Thanks for the info. I have mailed the author about it.

I am not sure if there is a problem or not. I have not encountered it yet. I 
produced the USB-version on MS Windows (no sda there, it was drive G:) and it 
worked fine on my trusty notebook.

We will find out I guess. The thumbdrive id vfat formated. Maybe ext3 or the 
like will pose a problem.

Kind regards,
Sebastian