Announcement & Poll: Installing Linux (Debian) on USB hard drive and USB flash/jump drive
Update: The series will be called “Installing Linux on USB“. Hello everybody! I am planning to write a series of articles related to Booting Linux on USB drives- Hard Drive and Flash/Jump drive (Yes, they are different and we will cover it). Just wanted to let you guys know about the upcoming series.
Also with this I would like to include my first ever poll on this blog. I request if you spare few seconds to vote regarding this topic. Depending on how much interest is generated I will write my posts accordingly. Also I do realize that right now I just have very few loyal subscribers/reader (23 as pointed out by feedburner.com) so there might not be enough people to carry out the vote responses but still I would like to do it to see what kind of enthusiasm and interest is generated. Your support will be highly appreciated!
Will you be interested to see some articles on Booting Linux on USB Drives?
- Yes (96%, 49 Votes)
- No (4%, 2 Votes)
- Does not matter to me (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 51
Loading ...Part 1: Difference between USB hard drive and USB Flash (or Jump or thumb) drive
Part 2: Install Debian Lenny on USB Hard Drive
Part 3: Which Linux filesystem for USB devices?
Part 4: noatime and relatime mount options
Part 5: Installing Debian Linux on USB flash memory drives
Part 6: Create a DOS and Linux bootable USB flash drive
Part 7: Install Debian Linux from USB drives
Part 8: Review – Installing Linux on USB
Part 9 – Coming soon…
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January 26th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
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January 28th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
K,
Don’t waste the time pendrivelinux.com has a great deal of different OS.
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Kushal Reply:
January 28th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Hi,
Yes I did see that before I decided to write the series. There are somethings that are missing which I am looking for. Anyhow it is too late. I have already on board. :)
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January 28th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
lol not a problem, I’m trying to do the same thing with Security, new tools and Free apps.
I’m also adding cool sites like your to my news feed and share it with everyone I know.
Keep up the good work.
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February 4th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
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December 26th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
thanx for effort. am putting 6.22 and ubuntu on an old win2k compaq, tripped over your site at right moment.
maybe old news:
6.22 stepup and 6.22 supplement available as M$ download. use expand.exe in the supp disk to expand command.co_ in the stepup disk.
play with stepup and you have the complete 6.22 os.
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August 11th, 2010 at 6:24 am
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September 21st, 2010 at 1:53 am
The issue I have with this is that the drive id (sda/sdb/sdc) is very likely to change, especially if you move the USB drive to another machine. neither the GNU Hurd Bootloader nor the Debian initrd can cope with this for plain sdX drives.
OTOH I have succeeded using an LVM setup on the USB drive for the rootfs with LILO as the initrd loader and they don’t care what the final sdX is. It seems to work best if you don’t put a partition table on the drive and do your pvcreate directly on the /dev/sdX of the USB drive.
Second is your use of ext2; IMO it’s a far more likely issue that the drive will be unexpectedly pulled than that it will wear out too quickly. So I would recommend ext3 for any USB device and furthermore I would recommend using full journalling ie:
tune2fs -o journal_data /dev/mapper/usbvg-root
OTOH, one thing you haven’t mentioned is swap; because of the low performance (and too many writes worries) I would make sure the was NOT a swap partition on the USB drive.
And finally, this also works with ESATA drives; where there isn’t a performance issue.
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May 3rd, 2011 at 11:44 am
This series of articles are really useful and explains well what choices do you have if you are working/developing linux on usb drives for differnet architectures ie. arm and others good work.
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