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Installing Persistant Linux on a USB

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CS
Christopher Shaw
Nov 9, 2015

I spent a while browsing forums and message boards looking for an answer to a simple question. Can I carry a linux distro in my pocket, and one which wasn’t an installation media.
I eventually did it and this is how.

CS

Christopher Shaw

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