Question about portable linux

[Stephen]

heh, i am also reading about the idea of wubi being installed/moved
from its virtual volume to a real volume. but im not sure if i can do
that as it requires being able to boot and run from its Linux
operation


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote:
> 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 at 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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