Forgot to mention it's only for streaming. That's why I don't want to invest in an actual HDD because I'll never use it. I'm not familiar with SteamOS at all and I'm only somewhat familiar with Linux as a whole so that's why I'm confused on the system requirements and all that. I would like to just put the ISO on the flash drive and run it from there like I do with Mint but the system requirements say a 500 GB HDD is needed and I don't know why.
Well you should be able to install it onto a 32GB flash drive as well. But since it's in beta still, I still think using Mint with Steam running in Big Picture Mode might be the better choice.
You still don't need SteamOS to do that. And as said, it's still "beta" and will be until Valve decide to finalize things.
What kind of controller emulation does Mint have though? I've come across what seemed to be homebrew drivers before but I don't know how stable they are. I want to be able to control everything with a controllerOriginally Posted by Shrak
You still don't need SteamOS to do that. And as said, it's still "beta" and will be until Valve decide to finalize things.
It's honestly no different than running Steam on any other system, and since you already have a Mint drive, you might as well use that. You can even set it to autostart the Steam Big Picture Mode session just like under SteamOS.
You could also use a shared storage partition, no need to give each distro 100 gigs.Originally Posted by Thready
Thanks for the help fellas but in the end, I might just take my 1 TB backup HDD out of my gaming rig and instead use my 2nd SSD for backup since my backups only take up maybe 10 GB of space anyways. This could save me some hassle. The PC that I'll be using for streaming is an old Dell and I'm pretty sure the motherboard's BIOS is old and it might not run an OS from a flash drive. I wasn't even able to put Windows 8 onto it from a flash drive. I had to use a CD because it simply wouldn't recognize a flash drive in the boot order. Anyone else have a problem like this with old BIOSes?
I might actually have to buy some DVDRWs and make an ISO of Linux like I'm living in the 90s here. Oh man that's gonna suck. But at least in that case I can have like 10 different Linux OSes on there each with a ~100 GB partition. That might help me practice and learn Linux better. The first time I used Mint I thought to myself, I would gladly use this if it meant I could save $100 on a Windows license. All my mom does is browse the DIY arts and crafts sites on Firefox anyways, she would never know the difference.
I believe he is talking about using /home and sharing it between the distros. You would do it through fstab.
GreetzOriginally Posted by Thready
Thanks for the help fellas but in the end, I might just take my 1 TB backup HDD out of my gaming rig and instead use my 2nd SSD for backup since my backups only take up maybe 10 GB of space anyways. This could save me some hassle. The PC that I'll be using for streaming is an old Dell and I'm pretty sure the motherboard's BIOS is old and it might not run an OS from a flash drive. I wasn't even able to put Windows 8 onto it from a flash drive. I had to use a CD because it simply wouldn't recognize a flash drive in the boot order. Anyone else have a problem like this with old BIOSes?
I might actually have to buy some DVDRWs and make an ISO of Linux like I'm living in the 90s here. Oh man that's gonna suck. But at least in that case I can have like 10 different Linux OSes on there each with a ~100 GB partition. That might help me practice and learn Linux better. The first time I used Mint I thought to myself, I would gladly use this if it meant I could save $100 on a Windows license. All my mom does is browse the DIY arts and crafts sites on Firefox anyways, she would never know the difference.
Multiple Distros/Partitions -Originally Posted by PLOP_website
Plop Boot Manager 5.0 - Introduction
The Plop Boot Manager is a small program to boot different operating systems. The boot manager has a built-in ide cdrom and usb driver to access that hardware without the help/need of a bios. You can boot the operating systems from hard disk, floppy, CD/DVD or from USB. You can start the boot manager from floppy, CD, network and there are many more ways to start the boot manager. You can install the boot manager on your hard disk. There is no extra partition required for the boot manager.