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Re: Portable Debian?

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On 04/25/2016 03:21 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> My system that I built late last year/early this year is running
> great, except for the occasional overrun of inbound ssh from such
> addresses as 59.*.*.*, 213.*.*.* and others, but that's only because
> I have not put any blockers in place, either on my home gateway
> device or my Debian system, but that one's on me. I have no GUI
> desktops installed, I run completely from CLI and use Speakup for all
> of it, including and especially Image for Linux for backup and
> restore, which I use on all my Windows machines..
>
> I'd like to take the installed Debian system as it is, write it to a
> CD or DVD, and use that as a talking backup/restore disc. Is this
> possible? Or should I create a new installation and write it to an
> ISO image, or just what should I do to accomplish the goal of
> creating a basic talking Debian shell environment that includes a
> licensed IFL?
>
> As always, thanks in advance for any and all suggestions.

If your motherboard firmware and Debian version support booting and
running from USB, you could clone your existing system drive to a USB
drive -- flash drive, HDD, SSD, SSHD.


Alternatively, make your own Debian Live images (hybrid ISO -- can put 
on optical discs or USB drives):

     https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-live/


On 04/25/2016 11:07 AM, Steve Matzura wrote:
> So, do I start with the running installation and run something to
> create the new media, or boot from the distro itself and create the
> new system on the target USB device?

I power-down the computer, connect a USB 3.0 flash drive, boot the
Debian 7.10 Xfce CD, partition the flash drive manually, and install
onto the flash drive as usual.  Upon reboot, I configure the CMOS setup
to boot from the USB flash drive.


David

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  Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-25 16:20 +0200
    Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-25 20:20 +0200
      Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-25 21:30 +0200
        Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 16:50 +0200
          Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-27 20:10 +0200
            Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 21:50 +0200
              Re: Portable Debian? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-04-27 23:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-04-28 05:20 +0200
              Re: Portable Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-04-28 00:10 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-05-11 15:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 01:00 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-05-12 01:30 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Oliver Briscbois <loki@zapto.roth.ca> - 2016-06-02 21:20 +0200
                Re: Portable Debian? Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2016-06-03 00:20 +0200
  Re: Portable Debian? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-04-26 04:10 +0200
    Re: Portable Debian? Steve Matzura <sm@noisynotes.com> - 2016-04-27 16:50 +0200

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