[Novalug] VirtualBox flash drive (Jon LaBadie)

[Jon LaBadie]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:38:11PM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
> Ditto Mark. Ditto Roger.
> Hell, even Ditto Rush!
> 
> How many times do I have to say it?
> 
> A USB Flash Drive is Just A Disk! Treat it as such, and boot into it 
> directly.
> 
> JIM
> 
> P.S. And if your Computer won't boot USB drives than simply chainload to 
> the partition from a bootable drive.
> 

None which address the situation where the owner of the
computer you wish to use does not want you to shut down
their system.

jl

> On 3/26/2012 8:35 PM, Mark A. Metz wrote:
> > ditto Roger.
> >
> > Plus, you might be able to get to a menu and choose from any recognized,
> > bootable device without changing the BIOS settings of "someone's" computer.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/26/2012 07:01 PM, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> >> Why not just boot directly into Linux? Avoid the overhead of the host system, etc.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
> >>        Email: RogerB at bronord.com
> >>        Web Site: www.bronord.com
> >>
> >> On 3/26/12 4:44 PM, "Jon LaBadie"<novalugml at jgcomp.com>   wrote:
> >>> Three things came together to stimulate this post.
> >>>
> >>> 1. Various discussions on booting linux from a USB thumb drive
> >>> 2. Best Buy having a sale on SanDisk drives that stick out
> >>>       only a quarter of an inch
> >>> 3. Seeing a few articles about putting a portable VirtualBox
> >>>       onto a USB thumb drive and running linux as a guest
> >>>
> >>> It would be nice to carry around a persistant copy of a linux
> >>> system.  I see pros and cons about the approaches in 1&3.  For
> >>> example, if I'm going to use someone's computer, would they be
> >>> happy about me shutting down their system and possibly mucking
> >>> with their BIOS to boot from a USB stick?  On the other hand,
> >>> I think using a VirtualBox approach would be specific to the
> >>> OS.  Or could multiple VB's (ones for linux, windows, and mac
> >>> hosts) be installed but all share a single guest linux?
> >>>
> >>> Has anyone used the VB approach?  Comments on it?
> >>>
> >>> Jon
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