[sf-lug] Ubuntu on a stick
Ken Shaffer
kenshaffer80 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 4 17:35:38 PDT 2011
Sure, I'll send it to you.
Ken
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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