I'm a new netbook owner considering installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Is it possible for me to download it to a usb drive and test it out with out installing it (similar to what can be done through the CD drive on desktops/laptops)? I'm worried about not being able to fully get into swing with Ubuntu fast enough to get my schoolwork done, so I'm wondering if I can try it before I actually install it. If I do install it and don't like it, can I revert easily back to windows?
Does anyone know if it would be possible to copy/clone my current Ubuntu install to a memory card of usb stick, and then boot from it? I have a HTPC and the hard drive is the loudest component in the pc. I was hoping that running it from a flash drive would be a lot quieter.
I am looking at installing Debian on a USB flash drive (not in a read only manner, but with configuration changes saved). I have read the eeepc usb stick installation guide, and just have a few remaining questions. Is there anyway to force the usb stick to stay in the same address (as it will be in a system with two sata drives, in hot swap caddies). Apart from having /tmp and /proc on ramdisks, is there anything else that is recomended to avoid excessive wear on the memory stick.
I just got Mint 10 DLed and I'm ready to install. I was reading around and saw that a Live USB can be done. Can anyone tell me how to do that? I also wanted to install it to a PC that isn't ready yet, but I a saw one could make a USB drive work like an OS disk. Can anyone help me with that also. All the years I've worked with PCs, I never installed an OS off a flashdrive.
I installed 9.10 onto a flash drive with 1 gig of presistence. I tried to install Lyx but it started installing Tex Live on the flashdrive. So I stopped it and installed Tex Live on my own using the installer from its site onto the hard drive. However, some space on the flashdrive was used by the failed install. Anyway I can get that space back? Additionally, if I want to swap to a larger flashdrive in the future? Could I just install the same way onto a larger flashdrive, set a larger presistence, and copy over all files from my original flashdrive? Sorry if I'm butching terms, I'm pretty new at this.
edit: Erm...I think when I deleted the things in the tmp folder because had a lot of archive files in there...I might have deleted something important. Since it is also now asking me for an administrator password that I didn't set. Trash doesn't have anything in there any more.
I am using the 32bit version of ubuntu desktop 10.10. When I download a video on transmission and copy it to my 2gb iball pendrive the movie file doesn't show up on ps3. The file is compatible with my ps3 no question about that, it works fine when i re-downloaded it and copied the file to the same flashdrive using xp.
I'm trying to format a 32GB USB flash drive to ext3 for Linux.
Code: sudo tail -f /var/log/messages shows me: Jan 1 23:40:42 rj kernel: [13773.966516] sd 11:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DRIVER_OK [13800.780008] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 [13800.932141] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [13800.932281] scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devi
I was given an Integral AES 256 bit encrypted usb drive. It isn't compatible with Linux which is annoying but i was wondering if i could format it and use it without the software? I have plugged it in and it comes up as a CD drive. I checked for it in Gparted but it doesn't show up there. Does anyone know how i could get the drive formatted? Just plugged in into a windows computer to see if i could format it there. Set it up but there is no option to format it upon right click of the drive.
Im trying to install Backtrack 4, XBMC live, and ultimate boot cd onto a 4gb usb flash drive and im wondering if my partition layout is acceptable for doing what i want to do, and im wondering how to install them to usb correctly (unetbootin doesnt work)
partition layout 100mb for boot 2.5gb for backtrack 4 700mb for UBCD 700mb for XBMC live
how do i install grub, or another boot loader that will read the adjacent partitions and boot them no matter what pc im on?
Ive created a bootable RHEL4 USB flashdrive so that I can do my installs from rather than using CDDVD's. The USB key boots fine to the point where it asks me to select a drive that contains the ISO images, but it doesn't show me the USB drive to select, only my 2 hard drives sda1 and sdb.
We currently use HP xw9400's with the following spec as shown in dmidecode:
BIOS Information
System Information
I know that the xw9400's have the nvidia mcp55 pro chip on the motherboard that handles USB, keyboard, mouse and other peripheral traffic, so am wondering if this could be what the problem is? Like there may some code that i need to tell the machine to use this or something?
I am working on a production system on which it is not advisable to enable on-access scan with use of Dazuko. However, I want to do an automatic scan with clamscan when the flashdrive is mounted. As far as I know, Kudzu is arranging the automount of the flashdrives.
I would like to run Linux Mint fullversion from a flashdrive. Is it possible and easy to set up. I have found how to basically create a flashdrive version of the live cd, but I would like to run the full version from the flashdrive.
I made a linux bootable usb flash drive. When I browse that usb flash drive in windows, it has a boot folder and inside it is the grub folder. Then I put a file in the flash drive in the same directory level as the boot folder. How can I access that file when I boot the usb flash drive in the other computer? When I am in the linux shell already
Laptop: Compact Presario C706NR Notebook Pc. Ive just tried to install Ubuntu 10.04 and unluckily failed... Ive checked the hard disk and it has responded error: 1files. [Errno 5] Input/output error
I'm running it on a USB. at the moment im using it as my comp. my windows vista is gone. Id like to fully install any recommendations?
Just wanting to know if there is a program or script or something I can use that will automatically copy all my files from a flashdrive, to a predetermined share, whenever that flashdrive is plugged into the server.
I have a Kingston 16GB Flash Drive ( the storage should show around 14.5 GB I believe). When I right-click, and go to properties, it only shows a maximum size of about 6.5GB. I cleared the files off of it and formatted it, and it still reads as 6.5GB. It's about a year old, but has not been used very much. I used it a few times to boot off of it, and run Linux ( ...just to try new to me distros) but from the looks of it, there are no partitions that I forgot to take off. I haven't even really used it that much since I got it. Where did my storage space go?
I know i can make my script run at boot time in runlevel 2 by putting it in /etc/init.d/ and creating a symbolic to it in /etc/rc2.d but thats when Linux is on hard drive.
I want to run my script from a flashdrive such that when a user plug in a flashdrive and powers ON the machine, it may start booting from the OS in flash drive and eventually executing my script.
How can I achieve such a functionality?
I have tried burning OS to flashdrive but I never succeeded in booting OS from flashdrive.
I not to add Clamav and Clamtk to my Ubuntu 9.04 flashdrive that I use to scan Windows based computers for viruses and spyware. I have to download and install every time that I use the drive.
The reason I ask is, we have a home server running Fedora 12. I would like to be able to let anyone just plug in a flashdrive, and have Fedora automatically grab and copy all the files on that flashdrive to a specific share.
I'm trying to save documents from a crashed computer using knoppix5.1 i've recently read that the flashdrive i use to transfer theses files needs to be fat32 in order to work...i've already tried transfering files so i'm assuming the flashdrive is in the ntfs format.so what i need is info on how to convert my flashdrive from ntfs to fat32.
Used to run Gentoo, years ago, getting back on the linux train. Anyways, got a new media pc and am having some troubles getting it to function. I am using ImageWriter, an OCZ Rally 4gb flash drive and have tried both HTTP and BitTorrent downloaded copies of 11.3 with the same md5sum check wrong error. What am I doing wrong? Is it because it thinks it is a CD or am I getting bad copies of the ISO? I am so out of practice I can't remember anything about installation anymore and am at a loss.
I can use Ubuntu from my flash drive, but I want to install it in a partition alongside windows. When I try to do this, I come to an 'allocate drive space' window, but whatever I do I get the error message: 'No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.' I just don't know what this means, or what to do next. I'm loathe to ditch windows, and I don't want to have to use a flashdrive all the time.
I can't get Redhat (Fedora) to mount my usb Flashdrive. My windows O/S has no problem with my usb flashdrive. I can mount my CD Drive and my Floppy drive. My mouse is pluged into one of my usb slots and it works. What am I doing wrong.
I'm trying to install ubuntu remix on an Asus Eee PC 1005P. I've downloaded the files from ubuntu and copied them to a usb stick. I have changed the boot order and still windows 7 comes on automatically.
