On 03/21/2018 07:08 AM, Beartooth wrote:
But what about the OS? If I were to put, say, the current
release of Fedora onto the same stick, would I be able to use
that, while visiting in-laws for instance, as if it were a live
CD =with= all my data?
You can certainly install Fedora to a USB drive. Make sure you have a
separate /home partition, same as on a hard drive. It works better if
you have a USB 3 drive and a USB 3 port to plug it in, otherwise it can
be somewhat slow. It's better than a live image because you can do
upgrades including the kernel and you don't have to worry about filling
up the overlay. There is a higher potential for filesystem corruption.
If you're going to be using it on different computers, make sure the
rescue boot image is updated or disable the hostonly option for dracut.
Otherwise, you might be missing necessary modules needed to boot on
their hardware. It's probably less likely when booting from USB, but it
did happen to me when moving a hard drive to a different computer.
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