Quote Originally Posted by Capricorny View Post
Have you been able to install another current Debian-family distro on the stick(s)?
I tried installing Debian 6 to flash drive and during partitioning procedure had this message: Error informing the kernel about modification to partition /dev/sdd2 -- Device or resource busy. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/sdd2 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.

I am not experienced enough to know if this is part of the problem with "library versions" or something different.

Re slowness of 7.0.4 vs 6.7.1, seems like it might be CPU usage issue.