#should i install arch on flash drive?

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rocky sleet
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i have sandisk ultra flair 3.0 with 256 gb, i will use sandisk cruzer 8 gb for live and sandisk ultra as portable ssd

warm vigil
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I don’t see any reason why not? except maybe to install directly on the portable SSD instead

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main thing to know is that a USB drive as a root is liable to slow down dramatically once you’ve used it enough

rocky sleet
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i dont have ssd thats why

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i mean i have, but theres another distro on it and its all complicated to install

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grub on another ssd, distro on another ssd and etc

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problems

rocky sleet
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im not gonna do play some games, edit and etc

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im just gonna use it as rescue and not home(some times) like using on my uncles laptop

warm vigil
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there’s no reason not to then

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go for it!

rocky sleet
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thanks man :)

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now i kinda feel better

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now im not confused what to do

rocky sleet
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@warm vigil ofc, theres no installation of linux without erorrs

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it dosent boot grub

warm vigil
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if it’s on a removable USB the motherboard may not be happy with GRUB trying to install itself as a permanent bootloader

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the best thing is for it to use the fallback mechanism – I’m not sure how you can make GRUB do that, but that means to put the bootloader at \EFI\BOOTX64\BOOTX64.EFI and tell the computer to just boot the USB drive

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but since we’re doing Arch anyway you might as well try something different

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try Limine, and configure it manually – just read the documentation for usage and configuration and you can figure it out

rocky sleet
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i tried to just boot my laptop without usb

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and grub works

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can i just boot arch inside another grub

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from grub basic bash console

warm vigil
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that could work, or you could add a manual boot entry for the Arch USB in the other GRUB

slim folio
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I don't see the issue of installing Arch on a flash drive.

I installed Arch on a USB.
It is slow because the laptop where I installed it had only 8 GB of RAM and because the USB was slow.
Nothing else than that.

rocky sleet
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but sandisk ultra flair is one of most fastest sandisk flash drives

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so i dont think thats the problem

rocky sleet
warm vigil
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I’m not familiar with os-prober

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I haven’t seen it behave correctly or autodetect other Linux systems, so I can’t be sure

rocky sleet
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it detect my windows 10 disk

rocky sleet