I think slint can fill the bill for you. You can put slint on a flash drive if you need to do that and have it install for you. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Fri, 22 Sep 2023, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I have a HP Pavilion lap top system which my wife was using to > run Windows 11 and it is presently failing to boot but > fortunately for this list, that is not what I am really here to > post about. > > What I think I need is a bootable version of linux which > is similar in behavior to the many Raspberry Pi images available > that can fit on a SSD card. Usually, they are compressed and > will fill the SSD card one has written the image to so they are > not your standard iso live CD's but one uses it as a > self-contained Linux system. What I want to do is keep Windows > 11 on the SSD but get the laptop capable of booting off of a > bootable usb drive if it is present. If not, it goes ahead and > boots Windows. > > This will probably require changing the BIOS settings to > turn off secureboot and have usb be the first boot candidate > tried. > > Right now, for this discussion, I am asking if there is > such an image for a 64-bit system. If it talks, that's the icing > on the cake but if not, I still might be able to use it via ssh > from a system that does talk. > > I want to use this instance of Linux to try to fix the > problem the dead box is having but also use Linux to backup the > box since Windows does not have a native backup program. This > also gives me yet another portable Linux box as if I needed one. > > As far as this list is concerned, is there something like > this out there and does it talk? > > Another reason why I have not simply tried to use a > debian installation image is frankly because there is a slight > chance of accidentally installing it on the SSD where Windows 11 > currently lives so I want to avoid that if possible. > > The idea is to do no more harm than has already been > done. From what I read based on the error screen, the problem is > fixable but if I write to the wrong device, that pretty well > blows things up so I am playing it safe if possible. > > One person mentioned grml with clonzilla which sounds > like a good thing but at this stage, I am open to any suggestion. > Don't forget that it's a laptop so one can't just pop drives and > memory cards in and out like one should be able to do in a > desktop system so I am trying to avoid doing that unless the SSD > proves to be bad. > > Thanks. > > Martin McCormick > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list