[Cialug] Pendrive system

[jim kraai]

snarky impractical answer:  move to USB3

Isn't there an all-in-ram way of doing this so the image can be copied to
RAM or fetch-once-on-first-need so startup isn't so painful?



On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:19 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> Been trying to build a thumb drive that can be installed in a workstation
> to do some low-level dd copying, and Mint was recommended.
>
> Tried it and it seems nice enough, so I built an 8GB thumb drive with
> base "Mint32 no codec".
>
> Unfortunately, performance is SO slow as to be unusable; would anyone have
> used a distro that would have decent performance off a thumb drive while
> providing a basic GUI?
>
>         Thanks!
>
>         Lee
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