Question about portable linux

[Stephen]

as cool as that is (something id like to do for my desktop) it wont
work for my laptop as the encryption is whole disk. so any volume i
make is encrypted... and im not in control of the keys to it...

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
<kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
> The way I understand the landscape, my solution would render wubi (which I
> consider a necessary and sometimes convenient aberration) not only
> unnecessary, but downright an inconvenient.
> I use the real MBR to create a "fake" MBR in the "virtual" HD (which is not
> virtual), that boots the VirtualBox machine off of the "bare metal"
> partition.
> As the VM boots, the partition will be unencrypted and available, just like
> in "real life".
> No wubi...   :)
> I'll organize my "cookbook" later on (BEAUTIFUL day, gotta go flying!   :)
> and publish it here.
> Stay tuned...
> ET
>
>
> Stephen writes:
>>
>> 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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>>
>>
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen