Hi all

I hope that I don't create an already existing topic.

Trouble is:
I'd like to install Win7 on a SanDisk Cruzer Contour USB Flash Drive U3, 32GB.
The system should be running on every usb-bootable computer.
+ it should be possible to install more programs on the system (for example Office, Adobe products, etc.) an should be possible to save created files.

we'd like to use these sticks later in school. So the pupils got their own "carry away" OS.

Or do you think a BartPE/chrome OS/Knoppix installation would be easier/more practically?

thanks for the help!

Regards

Franz

The main issue, as I see it is the licensing.

Unless you have a very special License Agreement with Microsoft, the "distribution" of sticks to pupils will be a breach of the Eula, apart from legal considerations, not morally the best thing in the world to teach in a school.

Same applies to BartPE, or any Windows based PE's, and to the actual apps you mentioned (Office - meaning Microsoft Office and Adobe products)

I don't think that Chrome has the features you are probably wanting the OS to have.

Knoppix is a concrete possibility, but there are a number of other Linux based distro's that may be more suitable.

In any case, you will need to rephrase:

to


There isn't AFAIK ANY OS "portable enough" to be 100% guaranteed to work on every USB bootable computer, unless you use a Virtual Machine based approach, which would slow down matters considerably.

jaclaz

I agree, legally Linux is the way to go, if the owners of the machines permit them to be rebooted. This link has a bunch of them: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

Where booting is not an option this list of emulators might be worth investigating: http://www.pendriveapps.com/software/opera...stem-emulation/