On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Mihir Mehta <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi people, > > I need to set up a Ubuntu 10.10 startup disk (USB pen drive) so that my > sister can use Ubuntu on a computer without having to install it on that > computer at all (The reason for this is that it's my parents' computer and I > don't want them to have strange problems with dual boot when I am away, at > college.). > > But when I tried doing this with a 2 GB pen drive, I wasn't initially able > to install any software packages. After this, I tried installing all the > updates with Update Manager, but that caused the memory to become full. > > Are you unable to install 10.10 i386 or amd64 to USB ? try unetboootin. format memory before using.. I have tried to install 10.10 amd64 on pendrive. But that won't boot because of bug in ubuntu 10.10.. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9948797 > So what's the solution? Can I install the packages I need to without having > to install all the updates? Or is it necessary to install the updates? In > that case, what is the minimum size of the pen drive I will need? > > Help will be appreciated. Please let me know if I've left something out. > > Thanks, > Mihir. > > -- > Mihir Mehta, > B. Tech. student, > Department of Computer Science and Engineering, > Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya │ http://narendrasisodiya.com └─────────────────────────┘ -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
