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What's everyone's favourite Linux rescue USB?
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I've just got Arch Linux installed on a USB drive. I set it up so it works with both UEFI and legacy BIOS boot. It works great - I can install whatever tools I need on it, I can even use it as a little portable Linux drive if I need that. I've also used it to install Arch on a number of my computers.
The only issue is that the USB drive is pretty slow, so it's not the best experience using it
Slower than the kind of shell you get in the Debian installer?
Is it slower because it's trying to log and write to the root fs whereas the installer runs everything in RAM and doesn't write to the USB?
Yeah I think so. There are some optimisations that can be done to improve things, but at the end of the day it's running off a slow USB drive
I do the same thing with NixOs, pretty handy but damn slow.