How to move a PCs Debian to a USB and remain fully bootable?
I have a 64 GB USB 3.0 drive, to which I'd like to transfer (in terms of file system and grub2 bootability) the Debian Jessie installed on the SSD of my retina MacBook Pro.
I am looking to do this in as few steps as possible, and for the result to be a seamless working bootable USB that boots up the exact same Debian install with my Icedove mail folders, customised settings, Nautilus tweaks, etc.
What is the most convenient way to do this?
Lastly, I have cryptsetup installed as it's a LUKS-encrypted LVM, not sure how that would complicate things. Other than that, no propietary drivers, everything as free and simple as possible. amd64.
debian usb-drive bootable cloning
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I have a 64 GB USB 3.0 drive, to which I'd like to transfer (in terms of file system and grub2 bootability) the Debian Jessie installed on the SSD of my retina MacBook Pro.
I am looking to do this in as few steps as possible, and for the result to be a seamless working bootable USB that boots up the exact same Debian install with my Icedove mail folders, customised settings, Nautilus tweaks, etc.
What is the most convenient way to do this?
Lastly, I have cryptsetup installed as it's a LUKS-encrypted LVM, not sure how that would complicate things. Other than that, no propietary drivers, everything as free and simple as possible. amd64.
debian usb-drive bootable cloning
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I have a 64 GB USB 3.0 drive, to which I'd like to transfer (in terms of file system and grub2 bootability) the Debian Jessie installed on the SSD of my retina MacBook Pro.
I am looking to do this in as few steps as possible, and for the result to be a seamless working bootable USB that boots up the exact same Debian install with my Icedove mail folders, customised settings, Nautilus tweaks, etc.
What is the most convenient way to do this?
Lastly, I have cryptsetup installed as it's a LUKS-encrypted LVM, not sure how that would complicate things. Other than that, no propietary drivers, everything as free and simple as possible. amd64.
debian usb-drive bootable cloning
edited 9 mins ago
ctrl-alt-delor
10.6k41955
asked Jul 2 '15 at 1:42
Grubber
162
I have a 64 GB USB 3.0 drive, to which I'd like to transfer (in terms of file system and grub2 bootability) the Debian Jessie installed on the SSD of my retina MacBook Pro.
I am looking to do this in as few steps as possible, and for the result to be a seamless working bootable USB that boots up the exact same Debian install with my Icedove mail folders, customised settings, Nautilus tweaks, etc.
What is the most convenient way to do this?
Lastly, I have cryptsetup installed as it's a LUKS-encrypted LVM, not sure how that would complicate things. Other than that, no propietary drivers, everything as free and simple as possible. amd64.
debian usb-drive bootable cloning
debian usb-drive bootable cloning
edited 9 mins ago
ctrl-alt-delor
10.6k41955
asked Jul 2 '15 at 1:42
Grubber
162
edited 9 mins ago
ctrl-alt-delor
10.6k41955
asked Jul 2 '15 at 1:42
Grubber
162
edited 9 mins ago
ctrl-alt-delor
10.6k41955
edited 9 mins ago
ctrl-alt-delor
10.6k41955
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