Hey Nicholas!   
      
    NB> VMs haven't seemed to install properly booting from a USB stick in   
    NB> recent attempts, so I've been using the DVD-ROM as well as just   
    NB> loading the ISO from the local drive.   
      
   I've never tried booting a VM from USB stick but have recently booted a   
   maintenence system from a usb flash drive using the usb3 addon card.  Mostly I   
   use it to copy development images I created to a regular sata drive (sometimes   
   a ssd) and make it bootable for a targetted system.  I was using it to create   
   bootable uSD cards for the raspi3 via a card reader plugged into one of the   
   ports on the addon card.   
      
    NB> I'm already looking into a couple more hard drives so I don't   
    NB> have to worry about space in the near future.   
      
   I have trouble filling up a single drive nevermind more.  As we speak my   
   latest custom build for a 8 core (single thread per core) C2758 sits at around   
   750M for the root/boot system and around 800M for all the source, build   
   scripts and latest packages built from the source and acripts.  At this rate   
   it would take forever for me to fill a terrabyte drive, nevermind multiple   
   ones.  However I do have backup drives although they probably need to be   
   upgraded soon.   
      
    NB> Once I make that decision I may make some room to give LFS some   
    NB> more of my time.   
      
   Definetly well worth whatever space you dedicate to it ... and then some.    
   These days 8G is more than enough free space to build a custom root/boot.  I   
   think between two terrabyte drives you should be able to find enough space for   
   it.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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