Can I install the Linux system inside my live USB stick into the hardware of the target device, and yet the system inside my USB stick remain over there ??

TheViking@nord.pub · 25 days ago

Can I install the Linux system inside my live USB stick into the hardware of the target device, and yet the system inside my USB stick remain over there ??

darthsundhaft@piefed.social · 25 days ago

Also not sure what you’re trying to do.

You could technically install your Linux distro to the USB first and then clone your image to another system. Wouldn’t recommend since that other system is likely to be different (cpu, gpu, etc.). This is also a lot more advanced since you would likely have to use something like dd or something else.

I think the more common thing to do would be to flash the LIVE image to the USB and then boot from it on the target machine to then run the installer from the LIVE image. This shouldn’t affect the USB if you do it right.

newton@feddit.online · 25 days ago

Try maybe ? https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html

megopie@beehaw.org · edit-2 24 days ago

So you’re booting from what is on the USB stick, it’s acting as a little hard drive that your machine is loading the OS from. Then the is running on the system installs it’s self to the actual hard drive. That installer build of the OS is still on the USB stick. What is on the hard drive might be different as during installation and set up, it may have been configured differently. But the USB stick should be unchanged.