[sf-lug] Ubuntu on a stick
jim
jim at well.com
Tue Oct 4 16:38:24 PDT 2011
can we post it on the SF-LUG site, too?
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 15:53 -0700, Ken Shaffer wrote:
> 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 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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