[Meatloaf] Am I looking for a "live" Linux distro?

[Dave Serls]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600
pt <mnemotronic at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: pt <mnemotronic at gmail.com>
> To: "Meatloaf (Serls) Meatloaf" <meatloaf at dashs.denver.co.us>
> Subject: [Meatloaf] Am I looking for a "live" Linux distro?
> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600
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> 
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>  
> 
> I think I'm looking for something called a "live" distro that will
> run off of a USB stick ... something that absolutely won't modify the
> hard drives on the laptop I'm running it on. I'm trying to reacquaint
> myself with Linux. I used Unix (PrimeOS) and Linux extensively in the
> 80s, 90s & early 2000s, but not since then. I'm familiar with command
> line and use the Gnuwin32 tools a lot.
> 
> I have a Windows 7 Pro laptop that, for the time being, must remain
> Windows. I've got some USB sticks
> <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5K8E1A?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1>
> .
> 
> I'm considering Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Alpine and Kali.
> 
> I've tried Ubuntu via Unetbootin and it got to a point where it
> looked like it wanted to repartition my laptop drives. I bailed on
> that.
> 
> For setting up the USB stick I've downloaded Unetbootin, BalenaEtcher,
> rawriteexe, Fedora Media Writer and ddrelease64. Etcher and
> Unetbootin seem to be the least favored.
> 
> Q. Do I only look for releases / distros say they're "live"?
> 
> Q. Can any distro be convinced to run in "USB only / don't f*** with
> my hard drive" mode?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

    Never used a live version of any distro, but most major distros
    should have a USB stick version that can be copied to a stick large
    enough. They should never ask for partitioning. 

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