Creating a Portable Disk to Run Linux Shell Scripts
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Creating a Portable Disk to Run Linux Shell Scripts
2016-01-17
I've been toying with the idea of creating a self-sufficient portable disk for running some Linux show-and-tell shell scripts I've created and debugged. If my idea is feasible, then I'll be able to distribute my scripts to others on a disk. I'll place the scripts as well as the jpg, mp3 and mov files used by the scripts and assume that the Linux host machine has vlc and shotwell installed.
My question is how to tell Linux the specific locations of these files, assuming that I'll place them in some appropriate directories on the disk to simplify file maintenance.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Julianvb
Last edited by julianvb; 01-17-2016 at 07:32 PM.
Reason: to complete coposition of this post.
Respin a live-cd image using Fedora, TinyCore, or DSL containing your scripts and the resources they need to run properly. Burn that to your CD or USB drive. You should then be able to boot almost any PC and demo your scripts.
If you are referring to a flash drive you can use on different machines, you can probably do an install on the flash drive with persistence. You could actually do a full install to a flash drive and put your scripts on the filesystem. Not really sure what your final goal is?
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