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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