Ubuntu Installation :: Usb Flash Disk Cannot Be Updated?
Feb 16, 2010
I just installed ubuntu 9.10 on a 4GB usb stick given the menu item at the top. I selected 512MB for my own user space. then I rebooted, and started updating it. I am getting almost 200 packages by default now that need to be updated.
alas, ubuntu live update now runs out of space while doing the update. this is not because 4GB is too little, but because too little space seems to be dedicated to the root partition.
what is the recommended way to have an up-to-date 9.10 copy now?
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Jan 20, 2010
I've tried installing UNR on a 1GB flash drive in the past, and on two occasions it completely broke due to lack of disk space. When I say broke, it was when I was trying to install or upgrade packages, it said it ran out of disk space, everything slowed right down, and in the end I had to restart. I was put into a recovery shell and after poking around for about 30 minutes, gave up. Then reinstalled.
Now my shiny new 4GB flash drive is split into two sections, one for documents (1.9GB) and one for the installation+persistency file (1.9GB). I went about updating the UNR system, adding software I need (some of which is quite big, anti-virus software, lyx etc), and quickly found the old warning message: disk space low. hastily make some free space (apt-get clean, delete a big firefox cache), and post this message. My questions:how do I find out how much disk space is left on this 1.9GB partition - specifically the persistency file? I've tried disk usage analyzer, also du -h, but can't really understand it. I want to be able to see ahead of time when I am short of disk space. I would like to switch to using XFCE instead of gnome for speed and disk space. Is this possible? What is the best way to switch, without risking maxing-out disk space and crippling the system again? is there are way to take a snapshot of the whole partition? I would like to back it up in case it goes haywire again. Would I just want to copy the persistency file, that's it?
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Aug 11, 2010
Fedora 13-64. Just update the flash-plugin with yum and it says it succeeded:
Code:
Running Transaction
Updating : flash-plugin-10.1.82.76-release.i386 1/2
Cleanup : flash-plugin-10.1.53.64-release.i386 2/2
[Code]....
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Jan 8, 2010
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Aug 7, 2010
lost all sound on flash after firefox updated (or shortly thereafter)
in other words videos and the like are silent (which is a kind of a blessing, really).
10.04lts 32bit
firefox 3.6.8 - (for ubuntu - canonical 1.0)
flash 1.0.10 (tried r&r already)
external usb sound card, desktop system
sound works great everywhere else, including mp3's on web through firefox. i searched the forum, of course, but didn't find anything that seemed relevant or up-to-date.
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Apr 23, 2010
I do not seem to be able to install an updated Adobe flash.SUSE 11.0 Linux linux-3eb6 2.6.27.7-9-pae #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I have done an rpm --rebuilddb. The following seems incompatible.
# rpm --erase flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386.rpm
error: package flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386.rpm is not installed
# rpm --install flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release.i386.rpm
package flash-plugin-10.0.45.2-release is already installed
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May 23, 2011
I have been trying everything to install flash player on Ubuntu 11.04, I've done everything and it wont work. Tried Downloading it from adobe, that ..... redirects me to, tried the source in the software centre, tried installing it through the terminal.
It either won't add the source or asks me for my install disk, when that is in the drive it keeps asking like it isn't (but it is mounted ect)Any one know a terminal command or way to fix this.
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Aug 22, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop. My problem is when I plug in flash disk in computer in runtime system don't automatically mount partions. There isn't any new files in /dev which I could be mount. What cause it? Before everything was working.
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Mar 28, 2011
Recently I have found myself getting terrible disk thrashing, to the point that my desktop is almost uncontrollable. I have found that killing the plug-in container task (I'm using 64-bit Firefox 4) brings the thrashing to an end. In other words it's a problem to do with Flash.
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Oct 17, 2010
its very easy to rename a flash disk or even a memory card or any storage in windows because all you have to do is right click on the disk and an option is there rename, i have failed to find a way of doing this in linux ubuntu 8.04, but i understand its possible even in the command line, i need to rename my flash disk
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Oct 17, 2010
Its very easy to rename a flash disk or even a memory card or any storage in windows because all you have to do is right click on the disk and an option is there rename, I have failed to find a way of doing this in linux ubuntu 8.04, but I understand its possible even in the command line, how to do this, I need to rename my flash disk.
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May 19, 2011
Flash is no longer working in Mozilla Firefox after the most recent flash plugin update. I couldn't find any information on it.
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Jan 18, 2011
I have ubuntu running on a SD but I can't install it when NTFS formatted wich works faster. What can I do?
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May 18, 2011
I use clamtk to scan flash disk. It says the engine is out of date. What do I do to update it?
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Jul 16, 2011
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 as a full install from a USB flash drive. In other words, I've installed to the flash stick just as though it were a normal hard drive. This is not a Live USB/Persistent install.
The drive is an off-the shelf 8GB Gigaware stick, and its read/write performance is pretty slow. Any time I do anything that requires disk access, it's very sluggish and tends to hang.
I'm looking for advice on things I could do to minimize the amount of disk-access made in the course of using the system, so that it will feel snappier and more responsive.
Some things I've done already:Installed 'preload', which is a daemon that monitors what programs you use frequently, and pre-loads them into RAM to reduce startup time. Mounted /tmp as a tmpfs (RAM disk) and moved my Firefox and Chrome browser caches into RAM. Set noatime for my root and home partitions.
Should I be trying to disable the filesystem journal as well? I'm less concerned with potentially burning out the flash drive with too many writes than I am with just making the system more responsive and nicer to use.
One other thing I was reading about is the so-called "Laptop Mode" that appears to be kernel settings to allow you to spin down a laptop hard drive: [url]
Obviously a flash drive doesn't spin, but it seems like some of those same techniques could be helpful here. Is there anyone who has experience running Linux in a situation with a very slow hard drive?
The computers I'm using this flash drive with all have between 2 and 8 GB of RAM, so moving more stuff into RAM is unlikely to be an issue.
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Jan 6, 2011
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It all works very well, but I would like to have backup so that if/when the flash disk goes, I can pop in another one.
I have tried to make copies of the flash disk (using both cp and dd), but it doesn't work. When the server starts its bootup sequence, instead of Linux loading, a cursor starts blinking endlessly.
If I put the original flash in, it works fine. If I put the copy in, it doesn't work.
I can't see any difference between the copy and the original. They seem to have the same content. If I do blkid both have the same label and UUID. The label is /boot, and /etc/fstab refers to this
We are running Scientific Linux 5.4.
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Nov 26, 2010
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Feb 15, 2011
After upgrade to 10.10 and when i do update or tries to install/update/remove i get following message
Code:
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/vlc_1.1.4-1ubuntu1.3_i386.deb
[code]....
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how to get a working bootable USB boot disk for DOS using Fedora 12. I needed the dos boot disk to flash my motherboard BIOS as it did not support linux for updating the bios. Thought I'd put the steps involved to help other people who wanted to do something similar. The steps outlined here are for a Fedora 12 system. You should be able to extrapolate the minor changes that may be required for other linux distributions. All commands listed below to be typed in on a command prompt, logged in as root. Here goes...
1. Prerequisites:
syslinux
testdisk
freedos base cd (http://www.freedos.org/)
[code]....
Acknowledgments:
1. [URL] for enlightening me on the fact that testdisk could be used instead of install-mbr
2. [URL] upon which this howto is broadly based.
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Jan 28, 2010
I was running Update manager and my old system pull a 'freeze/lockup' before things were completed so I have tried using apt-get; I first updated then upgraded and get the same issue as in Update mgr with 2 small packages, 1 Rythmbox and 1 software center. This is the terminal just before, during and after:
-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libsmbclient libwbclient0 rhythmbox samba-common
samba-common-bin smbclient software-center
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 18.4MB/20.2MB of archives.....
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