A dull secure boot usb

General Discussion
1

Hello,

I am interested in making a dull secure boot usb with DietPi for my laptop, just to do some banking.

I am following this article and hope it will work fine using DietPi

Questions:

  1. Following the above article, I want to run a bunch of sudo apt installs and some DE configurations/personalisations and then
  • make an extra encrypted usbdata partition to store videos/pictures/documents/etc
  • shrink the persistence so that no one can install anything further
  • make everything except the usbdata partition read-only

What extra command line commands do I need to run to accomplish this?

  1. In order to add launchers to the panel from the command line, what command should I run, for instance I like Terminator terminal app. I want to put everything into a text file that I can cut/paste into a terminal and run in case I need to recreate this boot usb without any manual work.

thanks

truth

2

DietPi is not designed to run as a live system like Kali does it.
If Kali is too bloated for you - to just do banking - check out Tails, Fedora Silverblue Live, Ubuntu Core / Immutable or maybe even Alpine Linux.

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Actually I believe any distro can be turned into a live system with the above article followed, there may be one or two simple changes to make sure the distro uses the persistence. That is what my post is about - likely for the DietPi development team to answer.

Are you certain about what you wrote above ie that making my dull-boring-secure-live-usb out of DietPi IS REALLY inefficient of an approach?

By the way, tails uses TOR rather than a paid-for VPN so it isnt advisable to use it for banking.

Truth