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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Flash drive booting project questions Post 302510414 by Corona688 on Sunday 3rd of April 2011 07:44:05 PM
Old 04-03-2011
In theory, a partitioned USB bootable system should be doable but so many systems are so bad at booting USB that I wouldn't depend on this setup working anywhere, ever. And the perennial problem with multibooting is, one slip-up and you lose absolutely everything else on the drive.

Another problem is that different OSes may demand different partitioning schemes, and naturally more than one type of boot sector can't coexist on one drive.

How much space is necessary depends on your OS and your needs. You can run linux in 200 megs but don't expect a fancy GUI system.

What's a "power user"?

I wouldn't bother with Haiku. BeOS was discontinued before 64-bit x86 processors were even invented, and every open release since then has been not just backwards-compatible but binary-compatible with it -- a bit of a dead end. Linux and BSD are indeed quite different from each other.

In the end, I'd just get another hard drive for your computer, swap it in, and see what you can install on it. Without a normal computer though, even that's going to be difficult. Maybe you can find a "throwaway" PIII/P4 system someone'll part with for a song and play with things safely on a computer that's not your main one.

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BUNDLE-CONFIG(1)														  BUNDLE-CONFIG(1)

NAME
bundle-config - Set bundler configuration options SYNOPSIS
bundle config [name [value]] DESCRIPTION
This command allows you to interact with bundler's configuration system. Bundler retrieves its configuration from the local application (app/.bundle/config), environment variables, and the user's home directory (~/.bundle/config), in that order of priority. Executing bundle config with no parameters will print a list of all bundler configuration for the current bundle, and where that configura- tion was set. Executing bundle config <name> will print the value of that configuration setting, and where it was set. Executing bundle config <name> <value> will set that configuration to the value specified for all bundles executed as the current user. The configuration will be stored in ~/.bundle/config. BUILD OPTIONS
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