[sf-lug] Ubuntu on a stick

[Ken Shaffer]

The usb live setup is a small part of a much larger general usb stick
writeup I have.  I'll send it to you
and you can post the link back here.  I've been meaning to get it posted for
at least a year, but always found things to change!
Ken

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Michael Shiloh
<michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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@**gmail.com<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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