Live USB vs Frugal Installation

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fischer22
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Live USB vs Frugal Installation

#1 Post by fischer22 »

Sorry that I'm asking such a simple question, but I couldn't find an easy to understand answer out there. So, if anyone can/wants to help me:

What is the difference (in performance, space used, etc, but without going into detail, just the basics so I get the picture) between running Puppy Linux from a Live USB Flash drive, or running it from a USB Flash Drive with a frugal install?

Thanks in advance!

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#2 Post by rcrsn51 »

Read here for an explanation of full versus frugal.

A USB setup IS frugal because it just contains the core Puppy files.

You need to explain what you mean by "Live USB vs Frugal Installation".

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#3 Post by Bligh »

Installing to usb might be preferable to installing to compressed ntfs. I don't have first hand experience at either. I have always used save files.
Cheers
Edit: I have always booted Puppy from cd.
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#4 Post by fischer22 »

By "live USB" i mean using, for example, unetbootin to create from the puupy .iso a bootable USB flash drive, and running it just like that.

From frugal install I mean this:

http://puppylinux.org/main/Puppy430-tut ... nglish.pdf

Slides 21 to 33.

I hope this makes my question easier to understand.
Thanks!

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#5 Post by rcrsn51 »

Both methods are doing the same thing - creating a bootable Puppy USB drive

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#6 Post by fischer22 »

Oh... reading those instructions (me, beginner in all of this) made it look like it was a somehow more "complete" or "full" install, relatively speaking.
Thank you for clarifying this for me :)

Happy new year!

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