Flash Drive
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Fri Jul 14 16:55:54 EDT 2017
At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 15:10:10 -0500 John Wright <minimuddler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I was actually thinking about making a self-booting fedora flash drive
> and installing gnucash on that. I could also install all my other apps
> as well and not use my hard drive at all. Talk about a throw back to
> the dark ages.
A self booking flash drive would work. Better would be real external USB
drive.
It is also possible to get larger (capacity) SSDs. I have a 128GB SATA SSD in
my laptop. Bought it on eBay for a not unreasonable price.
>
> John
>
>
> On 07/14/2017 12:00 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> > Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing
> > Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with persistent
> > storage. That is based on Debian Linux. It worked, but it was
> > somewhat clumsy. The nice thing is that all the data is completely
> > encrypted and insulated from intruders, "sandboxed" if you will.
> >
> > David C
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com
> > <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>> wrote:
> >
> > At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com
> > <mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On this list you have to use Reply All to reply otherwise the
> > message
> > > just goes to the previous user (as this did). Forwarding this to the
> > > list for information. Also see reply below.
> > >
> > > On 14 July 2017 at 12:31, John Wright <minimuddler at gmail.com
> > <mailto:minimuddler at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > > > Colin,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry for the confusion. I what to just run gnucash from the
> > flash drive.
> > > > Fedora will be installed on the pc and gnucash as well as all
> > the gnucash
> > > > data will be on the flash drive.
> > >
> > > To be pedantic you don't want to run gnucash from the flash
> > drive, you
> > > want to run gnucash from the HDD and write and read the accounts
> > file
> > > to the removable drive, which should be no problem. Gnucash does not
> > > care where you save to and read from. If you want saved reports
> > to be
> > > on the drive there may be a little more work.
> >
> > Most (all?) sensibly setup and configured Linux systems will
> > refuse to *run*
> > programs on removable media, since that is a massive security risk.
> >
> > Also, gnucash is generally dynamicaly linked and depends on
> > various [shared]
> > libraries that would need to be installed in system places (eg
> > /usr/lib[64]/)
> > from various dependent packages. So it is unlikely that putting
> > *just* the
> > gnucash exe file on the flash drive will work. Gnucash itself
> > expects to find
> > stuff in /usr/share/gnucash, which won't be on the flash drive.
> > And also has
> > its own pile of .so files in /usr/lib[64]/ that it will need to
> > access. And
> > it is likely that gnucash built for, say Ubuntu, may not run *as
> > is* under
> > fedora, becase of different library versions (and whatnot). You
> > really need
> > to just install the fedora build of gnucash on the fedora (there
> > most likely
> > is a gnucash-<mumble>.rpm out there somewhere, probably in the fedora
> > repository, so a 'sudo yum install gnucash' will do everything
> > needful.)
> >
> > But otherwise, having the *data* files on the thumb drive is a
> > perfectly
> > sensible thing to do. And is possible fairly secure as well.
> >
> > >
> > > Colin
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 07/14/2017 06:04 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> On 14 July 2017 at 03:12, ov10fac <ov10fac at cox.net
> > <mailto:ov10fac at cox.net>> wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Does anyone know if gnucash can be run from a flash drive
> > using fedora?
> > > >>
> > > >> Do you mean you want the program on a flash drive or the data
> > file? If
> > > >> you want the data file on the flash drive with gnucash
> > installed in
> > > >> fedora on the PC then that is no problem. If you want to
> > install the
> > > >> program itself onto the flashdrive, with Fedora on the PC,
> > then that
> > > >> is more problematic. Or do you mean you want to run Fedora
> > itself and
> > > >> gnucash from the flash drive?
> > > >>
> > > >> Colin
> > > >
> > > >
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