On Saturday 17 March 2018 13:23:10 William Morder wrote:
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> If anybody has anything to offer - for instance, how to make any
> computer boot from that flash drive? - I would be most grateful, as
> the experiment has been mostly successful otherwise.
>
> Bill
>
  G'day Bill,
     Have you tried Slax?
<https://www.slax.org/en/introduction.php>
   A "proper" Debian on a flash drive.  Only one thing, it does not have 
the TDE/Trinity desktop.  However, there is "Slax with Trinity"
<https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Slax_with_Trinity>
   which would be brilliant except that the "Persistent Changes" feature 
has been broken!  I have tried to find how this feature can be enabled 
for the Slax with Trinity version, but I'm not smart enough.  :-(
  Any help to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Glen