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@ -19,23 +19,26 @@ install it on that drive. Most modern distros know how to cope with external dri
The reason this is useful for USB sticks is that most of them are a bit shit.
Trying to run an operating system off a USB drive typically results in a corrupted drive pretty quickly
(if you can get the system to install properly in the first place).
(if you can get the system to install properly in the first place). The scripts and configuration files
in this repository are made to address this by keeping changes to the system in RAM until shutdown and
therefore lowering disk I/O.
## Installation
You need the following:
- Computer (duh)
- 8G of RAM or more
- ???G of RAM or more
- Can boot off USB (most computers made after 2003)
- USB stick (at least 8G)
- USB stick (at least ???G)
- Internet connection
- During the installation, roughly ??? will be downloaded.
There are a couple manual steps to get started before the installer scripts can take over:
- Set up a Void live medium
- Download here: https://voidlinux.org/download/
- The following instructions assume you downloaded the "base" image
- Burn to CD/DVD or flash it to USB stick
- Windows should have a built-in thing for burning ISOs.
- Windows should have a built-in thing for burning ISOs to optical media.
- You can use something like Win32DiskImager or Rufus for USB sticks.
- This will delete whats on the stick.
- Boot into Void live and prepare things