[Cialug] Linux on locked machines

[jrnosee]

Again, thanks for all the replies.  The SD card option didn't work out.  My
laptop doesn't see it as a USB device and doesn't give a boot option for it.

Matthew's idea was spot on for me though.  Staples ran a deal on their
nice, tiny USB drives and I picked up a 16GB for a steal.  I got Mint 13
Cinnamon loaded to it as a persistant live install.  Now I need to find out
exactly what that does and does not allow.  I've read a few things about it
being hard to change system configurations as part of the os is still
considered read-only (like the CD image it was built from).  So far it's
been ok with installing updates from apt-get and saving items like desktop
files, firefox favorites and such.

So far one of the hurdles I know I need to jump is to lock it down since it
boots and auto-starts with the default Mint account on the Live CD.  I'll
try creating a user on my next boot up of it and then try to remove Mint.

P.S. Sorry to let this stagnate, but I've been working on a number of
projects with limited time to spread around :(

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, jrnosee <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for everyone's input.  I think I'll see if it will let me boot USB
> > as I really don't want to touch the system any more than necessary.  If I
> > can get it to work I've got an internal SD card reader as well...I might
> > try to do some I/O tests and see if a fast SD card would be about the
> same
> > or any better than USB and if I can boot that.
> >
>
> Sadly, in my experience, installing to a USB drive and installing to an SD
> are not in the same league (regarding complexity). Maybe newer machines
> make life easier but I've not yet been able to boot off of an SD card.
>
> I did pick up a 8G usb drive that barely sticks out from the usb port. It
> was $10 at Staples.
>
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