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Re: Xtra-PC scam

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Mike Easter wrote:
> The stick is a modified/customized Lub installed to the USB; the Lub as
> delivered is without proprietary stuff like TrueType fonts and the Lub
> restricted extras repo items, so when the new user starts and creates an
> admin account and then accesses the internet successfully, it starts
> installing the proprietary ware when the user agrees to such as the MS
> EULA.

I find myself wondering about some 'strategies' of the Lub stick.

Typically, when one is booting a live USB, there is an 'initialization' 
process by which the (unknown to the .iso) hardware issues are 
characterized and solved, which occasionally requires some user input at 
the boot.

However, when one creates an install to the USB, the boot process is 
different from the live, so making a full install capable to go out to 
the 'masses' of different hardware must be tricky or potentially 
problematic.

Also, full installs potentially create some writing 'wear and tear' on 
the USB.  This xtra-pc lub is trying to make old hardware which is more 
likely USB 2 and not so much ram and not so much cpu act sprightly. So, 
how to 'decide' how to manage the 'run from ram' metrics?  Puppy Linux 
creator Barry Kauler is a maestro at that ram management strategy.

When I read discussions about how to make USB installs, I run into such 
as this discussion //entry// (from 2013):

// I recently tested a number of types of USB flash drive installs, for 
speed, using 12.04:

Full install, no swap.
Full install, swap.
Full install, separate ext2 home partition.
Full install, swap, separate ext2 home partition.
Full install, swap, separate ext2 home partition, FAT32 partition.
Persistent, casper-rw file.
Persistent, casper-rw partition.
Persistent, casper-rw + home-rw partition.
Persistent, casper-rw + home-rw partitions with Try/Install screen removed.
Iso boot, Persistent, casper-rw + home-rw partitions with Try/Install 
screen removed.

I tried again after removing journaling and adding noatime on the Full 
installs.
//


That page is informative before and after the entry I posted part above.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2130234&p=12578569&viewfull=1#post12578569 
  Re: Choosing between Live USB and Full USB Installation

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Mike Easter

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