- Sep 19, 2014
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I was wondering if anyone has ever installed a Linux OS onto a flash drive, like a full install? I understand I can use UUI from pendrivelinux.com to install bootable disks on a USB to install Linux onto a hard drive, as I've done this a couple times and used it to install Ubuntu on a couple computers. I've also installed Linux Mint onto a thumb drive using UUI with a persistence so my changes are saved, but this appeared to limit my usable disk space on the USB (32 GB flash drive, installed a couple extra apps, and it tells me I had 0 KB of disk space left after everything was done even though the apps were relatively small). Is it possible to install a distro onto the flash drive as if it were a hard drive and therefore be able to boot it onto any computer I plug it into, or is it because it doesn't have its own RAM that it wouldn't be able to save changes otherwise? I'd like to be able to use the full 32 GB of space to make changes in Linux and have those changes be applied when I boot it up again. Everywhere I look seems to be saying the same thing, just use UUI, but again, the persistence space seems limited, unless I'm still doing something wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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