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Planning a portable bootable disk - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux Tips
Planning a portable bootable disk
- [Instructor] You can create a portable Linux environment to take with you and use on different computers. But before we start that process, there are a few things to consider. First of all, booting an entire operating system from USB will not be as fast as booting from an internal disk. Even with USB 3 the bandwidth you'll have for your disk is much lower than an internal bus. So thing will be a little bit laggy or sticky, and that can be annoying. But there's not really any way around that. Using a slower bus like USB 2 will be even slower. And I wouldn't recommend using a system booted from USB 1 if you can avoid it. The flash storage in USB thumb drives is much slower than regular SSD media, and even slower than a regular hard drive. So you can get a little better experience putting in SSD or magnetic hard drive in the USB enclosure. But that's bulkier than a nice little USB drive. So my recommendation here is to use…
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Planning a home server6m 11s
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Backups with rsync6m 18s
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Linux on an old PC6m 7s
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Creating a disk image with dd3m 54s
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Mounting and writing disk images with dd7m 1s
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Migrating to a new distro4m 33s
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Planning a portable bootable disk3m 12s
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Creating a portable bootable disk5m 30s
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Host your own Apache web server5m 32s
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Set up Let’s Encrypt on a web server5m 3s
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Host a personal cloud with Nextcloud4m 50s
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Hosting email services3m 7s
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Set up a print server with CUPS6m 5s
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Create a network PDF printer4m 37s
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Remote logging with Rsyslog7m 12s
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Set up a Git server4m 15s
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NGINX web server4m 11s
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Share files with a Samba server3m 35s
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Set up an NFS server3m 58s
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Monitoring your server2m 49s
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Exploring Internet Relay Chat (IRC)6m 6s
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Keep on learning!35s
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