RNAi [he/him] to chapotraphouse • 1 year ago> "Hi, I need a USB stick, 8 Gb would be OK" > "Minimum size is 32 Gb, grandpa"imagemessage-square18 fedilinkarrow-up163
arrow-up163image> "Hi, I need a USB stick, 8 Gb would be OK" > "Minimum size is 32 Gb, grandpa"RNAi [he/him] to chapotraphouse • 1 year agomessage-square18 Commentsfedilink
minus-squaredumpster_dove [he/him]hexbear17·1 year agoIt feels so wrong to have a boot device with that much space when the OS you're putting on it is less than 4 GB link
minus-squareSuperZutsuki [they/them]hexbear6·1 year agoPut Ventoy on there and you can boot multiple ISOs off the same drive link
minus-squareElRenosaurusReg [fae/faer, comrade/them]hexbear4·1 year agoI still use DVD-R for my live systems. Somewhat for nostalgia, somewhat because "why waste a 16gb flash drive for something that barely takes 2gb?" link
minus-squareneeps [none/use name]hexbear3·edit-21 year agoIf you put puppy Linux on it you can save your data back to the drive even though it's technically a live system. link
It feels so wrong to have a boot device with that much space when the OS you're putting on it is less than 4 GB
Put Ventoy on there and you can boot multiple ISOs off the same drive
Exactly for fuck sakes
I still use DVD-R for my live systems. Somewhat for nostalgia, somewhat because "why waste a 16gb flash drive for something that barely takes 2gb?"
If you put puppy Linux on it you can save your data back to the drive even though it's technically a live system.