Flash Drive

[John Wright]

I am considering a larger drive.  It might be the smarter way to go.


On 07/14/2017 03:55 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> 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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