So i saw a thread somewhere about using a thumb drive to make extra ram for your pc. This was of course on a windows pc. I was wondering if this works on Ubuntu also and if it is really worth it?
Also if you have 4 USB ports could you put in 4 usb thumb drives and have a fantastic amount of ram?
The software: Ubuntu Server Edition 9.10.The wetware: A programmer doing his best (read: ignorant, shitty) as an ad-h.When I plug the USB thumb drive in, the install OS gives it a drive letter -- /dev/sdb -- and it pushes the original /dev/sdb down to /dev/sdc. The installation works without a hitch, and GRUB2 installs, dutifully pointing the root at /dev/sdc1 instead of /dev/sdb1.I let GRUB2 start normally ("drive not found"), holding the <shift> key to get to the "rescue>" prompt.From there, I issue "ls" to discover that GRUB can NOT see /dev/sdb, and I can tell that because what is showing up as (hd1) does NOT have three partitions as it should.GRUB2 sees a total of 16 drives, not 26, and one of the drives it sees is "fd0" (there is no floppy drive).Issuing commands like "set prefix=(hdx,y)" and "root=(hdx,y)" have no effect as, I think it's just pointing to the (reiserfs)content drives and this GRUB2 tells me "unknown filesystem".I did try them all in vain, hoping that maybe I'd find a kernel somewhere.I used the "rescue" mode of the Ubuntu installer (the USB thumb drive) to get to a root prompt.From there, I mounted /dev/sdc2 (the "shifted" /dev/sdb2) onto /mnt, I mounted /dev/sdc1 (the "shifted" /dev/sdb1) onto /mnt/boot,and then I chroot'ed to /mnt.I edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg, editing every instance of "root=(hd2,1)" to the appropriate UUID for the "real" /dev/sdb1. Then I issued update-grub2.It refused to work giving me an banal "no such partition" error or something like that.
We originally had this server functioning by putting / and /boot on the SS SanDisk, which caused no problems during installation because /dev/sda doesn't get shifted.We then figured it was a good idea to put our OS files on something with failover capability. And that started us down this crappy "shifting drive letter" path.Can I control which drive letter the USB thumb drive gets assigned during the install process?If I could make it be /dev/sdc then I wouldn't be facing this problem.An alternate solution would be to know the cryptic GRUB2 commands that I can issue from the command prompt post-install, pre-reboot.But I'm wondering if that will ultimately work at all considering that GRUB2 couldn't see /dev/sdb at all.
I am new to Linux ,i did one project in windows which will block the thumb drive with respect to serial number(Device instance ID) of the device.i am planning to do the same project in Linux using c/c++.I am very new to Linux,there is no drive letter for thumb drives we insert into Linux OS.How to get Drive letter and how to get Device instance id of thumb drives please help me get some clues.please provide me any tutorial or any links .w if have any other clues to block devices with respect "block list" and "allow device list".if the serial number in block list it has to block if serial number in allow device list it has to allow thumb drive to access.
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Have not found this elsewhere so here goes.
I had a friend ask how he could do his electronic banking without a chance of any information being left on his computer once he is done.
I thought of a Ubuntu live CD but have seen the HD activity light flashing when using one. That leads me to believe that some kind of use is made of the HD and that makes a live CD questionable. He wants no information on the HD even in unassigned sectors.
Maybe, better yet would be a USB thumb drive that runs Ubuntu or another distribution that will not use the HD or even require that one be in the computer. A plus with a thumb drive would be that it would only be available on the computer when it is being used so it could contain passwords etc. Of course, it would have to be removed when not in use.
I want to put Ubuntu on my 16 gb USB thumb-drive so that I can use Ubuntu on any computer willing to boot from a USB drive (at my office, my wife's desktop, etc.) I cannot find how to do this. All my search attempts show me how to put an "install disk" onto the USB thumb-drive using the command: System -> Administration -> Startup Disk Creator
I tried the above. The first time I booted from the thumb-drive it asked me whether I wanted to try using Ubuntu from the thumb-drive or install. Having to make that selection with each boot would be a slight pain, but not a deal-breaker. But then the thumb-drive OS detected my laptop's wireless card, asked to install a driver, and then asked to reboot. Now it does some odd blended boot where it skips my hard drive's Grub Loader (so it *is* still booting off the thumb-drive) but goes to my hard drive's account sign-in. How can I make a USB thumb-drive that boots Ubuntu Desktop just as a normal hard drive, with accounts and the ability to install drivers and new software?
I tried to install ubuntu 10.04 to a 16 gig thumb drive and the installation went perfectly. However, when I removed the thumb drive and tried to boot the computer back into windows I saw that the installer had installed GRUB on to the hard drive of the computer. Windows runs fine, but it wont start with out the thumb drive that has the ubuntu install on it, this is very bad for me. Is there a way I can remove GRUB with out messing up windows on the computer? i dont have a windows 7 boot disk so this operation would need to be done either in windows (already booted) or ubuntu.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedHas anyone else had an issue transferring large files to external usb drives ? What seems to be happening is it will float right along until it gets to the last couple of megs and then just sit there for a few minutes. The larger the file the longer it sits there. I am having the problem with both an external 1 gig usb HDD and two separate thumb drives. All of which have been verified as functional and fast under other systems. All of the drives are formatted in NTFS for portability in the field. I also do not believe this to be a hardware issue as it does it on my daily driver as well as my laptop.
This is the kernel I am running
Linux 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 19:31:57 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
All the drives were automounted.
i wonder if i can create an autorun thumb drive in ubuntu.I've tried this in windows, it works. I'm not so sure how to do it
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Data was recovered from an XP system by booting with a BartPC CD and copying onto a USB thumb drive. Nothing unusual.
System was rebooted into the XP install CD.
The first drive that was found was the 16gb thumb drive (AKA flash drive) and the person (re) installing XP didn't catch the fact that XP presented the 16gb thumb drive instead of the 160gb hard drive.
The drive partition function in XP deleted the partition table - on the thumb drive.
A freeware utility in Windows shows the data but can't recover the file names, so that everything is gobbledygook. Does anybody know of a utility or program under Linux that can help? I have a laptop running F 12 and can do the work if needed, but don't know what program to use.
I am looking for OpenVMS distribution on a thumb drive for a PC. I image it would be a Linux system that automagicly starts a VAX simulator then boots OpenVMS on that. Either it would run live off of the thumb drive or it would install to the system's hard drive.
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