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I want to install Debian directly onto my USB drive. Is there an easy way to do this directly without having to reboot to run the installer?

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dunno, the system might ran out of RAM due to lack of swap, but the drive should be fine due to the limited writes

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well no because the cache will fill up faster than writes that are happening. You would be postponing the inevitable.

The only option is to either reduce the number if writes by using MX Linux on the USB or to get something that can handle the writes like a USB NVMe enclosure

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago