[sf-lug] Ubuntu on a stick

[Ken Shaffer]

Hi Michael,
These little penguins are just micro SD readers, sold by Cyberguys for 0.99
in their clearance section -- they do turn up on Amazon with the right
search too.  I put 2G micro SD cards into them, since they do not claim SDHC
support, but the 4G micro SD card Bobbie gave me seems to read OK, haven't
had time to try using it for anything.
  I do partition them into a FAT and ext2 partition, so I can label the ext2
partition "casper-rw" and have a writeable part.  Also, change the heads=4,
sectors/track=16, and move the start to 4M (and in the future will put the
second partition at a 4M boundary too).
Ken

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> this sounds good. where can i buy one?
>
> is it basically the same as the Ubuntu USB Flash Drive from ZAReason (and
> other similar sources)?
>
>
> On 10/04/2011 10:14 AM, Ken Shaffer wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>> How about a little rubber usb penguin which attaches to your phone?
>> It's set up with Ubuntu 10.04 live media, boots up in 45 seconds, and
>> had about 600M ext2 writeable (and some FAT writeable too).  If you'd
>> attended one of the last two SFUG meetings, you'd have one!
>> Ken
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com
>> <mailto:einfeldt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    hi,
>>
>>    My employer has said I am going to be able to move my work computer
>>    to a dual-boot Linux and Microsoft Windows.  The machine is from
>>    2010 and has no CD-ROM, so I am going to have to boot off of a USB
>>    stick.  More precisely, I am planning to use my Android phone
>>    (Motorola Droid 3) as the USB stick.  Does that seem unwise to
>>    anyone?  I carry my Android phone with me everywhere, so I thought
>>    it would be nice to always have a Linux distro with me everywhere
>>    without having to carry a separate USB stick.  I plan to use Ububntu
>>    10.04, download it to the Microsoft Windows XP hard drive, and then
>>    move it to the Motorola Droid 3.  Thx in advance.
>>
>>
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