(SOLVED) Preliminary questions

[Yankee]

Hello,

I have KDE fully installed on a flash drive with 2 partitions.  I have draklive installed.  
Can I install KDE directly from this flash drive ?   It looks like it would work if I had
another flash drive.

When I make a LiveCD with mklivecd can I put the ISO on an external drive other than
the source ?   A LINUX partition on a portable hard drive ?

Then, can I install the ISO to a flash drive with unetbootin in LINUX ?   It looks like the ISO
can be made on either say, xfs or fat32, and then put on a big enough flash drive.


thanks for any ideas,

patrick013

[wedgetail]

I have seen this one a few times when searching, I am quite curious also.

Anyone got some spare time during later part of festive season to comment 

[Was_Just19]

Hello,

I have KDE fully installed on a flash drive with 2 partitions.  I have draklive installed. 
Can I install KDE directly from this flash drive ?   It looks like it would work if I had
another flash drive.

When I make a LiveCD with mklivecd can I put the ISO on an external drive other than
the source ?   A LINUX partition on a portable hard drive ?

Then, can I install the ISO to a flash drive with unetbootin in LINUX ?   It looks like the ISO
can be made on either say, xfs or fat32, and then put on a big enough flash drive.


thanks for any ideas,

patrick013

I came across this thread by accident today ........  did you get your questions answered?

If not post back and some of them can be answered at least. 

[Yankee]

Hi,

And thanks for the response.   Most questions have been resolved.
The installed Linux distro cannot act like a LiveCD for installation,
just doesn't.

I guess the main question is can you put the ISO on a flashdrive and
with what ?    Haven't had time to experiment with it, the Live CD ISO
creation process itself appears to take hours.

THX.

Patrick013

[Was_Just19]

Hi,

And thanks for the response.   Most questions have been resolved.
The installed Linux distro cannot act like a LiveCD for installation,
just doesn't.

I guess the main question is can you put the ISO on a flashdrive and
with what ?    Haven't had time to experiment with it, the Live CD ISO
creation process itself appears to take hours.

THX.

Patrick013

The remastering of your system is dependent on a lot of factors including how big the OS is, but also to a large extent on the hardware ......  CPU capabilities, mostly.

There is a utility in the repository, called PCLinuxos-liveusb, which places the live PLCOS of choice, on any partition of a removable disk you choose.

It will make use of any PCLOS ISO, including those you generate yourself.

You can have several versions of PCLOS on one partition, if space allows, thus freeing other partitions for different uses.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74878

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74879

regards

[Neal ManBear]

Hello,

I have KDE fully installed on a flash drive with 2 partitions.  I have draklive installed.  
Can I install KDE directly from this flash drive ?   It looks like it would work if I had
another flash drive.

You can install from a running live ISO whether it is from CD, DVD or USB stick.

When I make a LiveCD with mklivecd can I put the ISO on an external drive other than
the source ?   A LINUX partition on a portable hard drive ?

Is this a 2009 system? 2010 uses mylivecd.
Installation to an external HDD can be done. Search the forum for posts on the subject by Old-Polack.

Then, can I install the ISO to a flash drive with unetbootin in LINUX ?   It looks like the ISO
can be made on either say, xfs or fat32, and then put on a big enough flash drive.
thanks for any ideas,

patrick013

On USB sticks, I'd recommend using ext3 or ext2. This will work great with PCLinuxos LiveUSB Creator (available in 2010).

[Yankee]

Hello,

The installation was not "live" but did have draklive installed.

The last time I looked at LiveUSBCreator I didn't see an option for
mylivecd, have to look again.


thanks for the response,

Patrick013

[Neal ManBear]

Hello,

The installation was not "live" but did have draklive installed.

The app draklive-install is used to install a live system to a HDD. Hence the "live" and the "-install" parts of the name. It isn't used to install an installed system.

The last time I looked at LiveUSBCreator I didn't see an option for
mylivecd, have to look again.


thanks for the response,

Patrick013

LiveUSB Creator can be used to install an existing live ISO to a USB stick, or it can be used to install a running live system to USB; that is, while running a livecd, you can install the running system to a USB stick. It does not create the live system, it installs it to the USB stick.

[Yankee]

After waiting awhile to look at this process finally made a LiveCD.

A 2.7 gb LXDE system on a 16 gb flash drive.   Took about an hour
and the ISO was 769 MB.   Installed the ISO with Unetbootin on another
flash drive and the Live CD flash drive boots and appears to be working great
and ready to install the program.   

Put some nice programs on it too like Pan and Picasa.

Easier done than said.


FF