dimanche 20 novembre 2016
dimanche 20 novembre 2016.
The following text is the second part of a reboot —as they say for films, now— of my 3-year-old series about having a universal Linux and Windows toolbox on a bootable USB flash drive. The main target is a full portable Linux OS, but I will also
address the Windows OS, for those times when you have no choice ;-)
This part is about the boot loader and miscellaneous tools accessible from there.
vendredi 18 novembre 2016
vendredi 18 novembre 2016.
This is a new take on my 3-year-old series on the same subject, with the aim of having a portable toolbox for anything PC, from booting Linux, to having my favourite productivity tools at all time, to being able to rescue a broken disk or OS, and so on. This toolbox takes the form of a standard USB flash drive, made bootable and filled with all that I need, yet still uncluttered, and usable as any USB flash drive for transferring data.
This first article is about the “bootable” part.
vendredi 21 juin 2013
vendredi 21 juin 2013.
TinyCore being Linux at the core, it does handle UTF-8. This encoding has been the default in most Linux distributions for years; not so for TinyCore. That’s because this distribution strives to be tiny and UTF-8 support does make the overall size grow a bit.
In my case, with a whole 16GB (woot!) flash drive, I can easily afford the comfort brought by UTF-8. Here we go…
jeudi 9 mai 2013
jeudi 9 mai 2013.
This blog post is part of a small series, with the aim of configuring a bootable USB flash drive for portable use on any PC. The main target is a full portable Linux OS, but I will also address the Windows OS, for those times when you have no choice ;-)
This second part is about the boot-loader and miscellaneous tools accessible from there.
mercredi 8 mai 2013
mercredi 8 mai 2013.
This blog post starts a small series, with the aim of configuring a bootable USB flash drive for portable use on any PC. The main target is a full portable Linux OS, but I will also address the Windows OS, for those times when you have no choice ;-)
This first part is about the flash drive itself.
