Re: Question about portable linux

Hey, if you can find that 'cookbook' could you let us know? that
sounds like a really cool thing. How about that linux running on a
computer at the public library, eh?

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 01:26:02AM -0500, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> I am not sure that I understand the problem, but I have successfully
> used a $70, 250GB USB HD to boot a M$ laptop on Linux, and then run
> the native WinXP or Win7 OS inside VirtualBox.
>
> I LOVE IT!!! 8)
> I can shutdown the laptop, pull the USB HD, boot the native Wincrap
> and there is no trace (other than the VirtualBox guest additions
> installation) left behind.
>
> I even have a cookbook to accomplish this.
> Somewhere... :)
> ET
>
>
>
>
> Stephen writes:
>
> >I have a laptop at work that is horribly gimped with xp 32 bit.
> >
> >I can boot wubi but the drive is encrypted with mcafee endpoint encryption
> >so it cannot acess its disk volume past boot.
> >
> >So aside from an expensive ec ssd or an expensive thumb drive that's out. I
> >so have a ian hdd but it's weird and I can't boot from it.
> >
> >Im looking for options that I can ramdisk as I have 4gb of ram or get funky
> >useing the ian hdd for persistant data.
> >
> >I have not yet tried to use the ian hdd for the wubi file as its a slow
> >drive.
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