On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:58 AM, Pete Theisen petetheisen@verizon.net wrote:
Our local group started down that road, but then they got all infatuated with Raspberry Pi in 3D printed cases and forgot all about the flashdrive project. They did get a couple of examples working but you still need a CPU, monitor, speakers, keyboard, and so on.
A couple of examples worked but it wasn't easy and it wasn't really cheap (hours and hours of work) or convenient. It might boot on one machine but not on another, for example . . .
If you use a boot manager like YUMI, http://tinyurl.com/zb7abw2 https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ it's actually pretty easy to make a bootable USB containing multiple distros and other repair tools to choose from.
One big advantage to the DIY route over buying a ready made drive as in the orignal link is that you can choose a faster drive which can greatly improve performance.