[Gnumed-devel] Re: Try Linux from USB drive

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:

> Just to clarify one thing - The USB drive you make with UNetbootin, while in
> theory it should boot on any machine, depends on having given the bootloader
> (grub) the values for sda1 / sdb1 that are correct. If you take this stick to
> boot another machine, you may need skills in command line grub.

I had good experiences with Privatix

    http://mandalka.name/privatix/

which has solved exactly this Problem on top of a Debian Live system.  I 
remember
that at these pages also was given a description what has to be changed in the
device mapper to solve the different computer / different drive ID problem -
but I do not remember where exactly.

If you might fail to find the relevant piece contacting the author might most
probably be helpful.  If I understood right what privatix does is:

  - create a debian-life profile containing all encryption / privacy stuff
    in Debian Lenny
  - add a small piece of code to make sure it works on every computer with
    an USB stick

If you understand the principle just adding GNUmed might be cheap.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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