If you want to install Debian on an external drive, you can follow these instructions. THis has the advantage of being portable and persistent, and works for hard drives and flash drives.

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Seeing how inconvenient the whole tethering process is, I decided to simplify it with these scripts. You will probably want to keep the SUID bit on these, or use sudo and set it up to not ask for a password for this command. Be sure to replace wlan0 with your wifi interface.
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Since I want to be able to use my Linux laptop on the go without paying for a “tethering plan” or paying for a separate plan, I decided to try tethering my iPhone. Doing this with network-manager is simple.

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