[sf-lug] Ubuntu on a stick

[Michael Shiloh]

Brilliant! So you have found a way to recycle what the average consumer 
would consider too small and thus useless memory cards. Bravo!

Is there a writeup? I would post this to the MAKE blog.

On 10/04/2011 01:34 PM, Ken Shaffer wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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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