On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Mihir Mehta <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:10 PM, ankush <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:20 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. >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> You are able to use the 2GB stick/with the ISO loaded on your squashfs >>> >>> I can understand from your post is that you are having som e sort of >>> memory full issues to which I can say is that increase the size of the >>> pendrive >>> >>> any other problem please bring it out >>> -- >>> ____________________________________ >>> *| without fear | without remorse | without pity **|* >>> *| >>> **|* >>> *|*http://god-is-an-alien.blogspot.com/<http://god-is-an-alien.blogspot.com/> >>> *|* >>> *| >>> **|* >>> *|*http://wediefornation.blogspot.com/<http://wediefornation.blogspot.com/> >>> *|* >>> *| >>> **|* >>> *|*http://ankscorek.blogspot.com/ <http://ankscorek.blogspot.com/> >>> *|* >>> *| >>> **|* >>> *|*http://sites.google.com/site/agnayelinux<http://sites.google.com/site/agnayelinux/> >>> / <http://sites.google.com/site/agnayelinux/> *|* >>> *| >>> **|* >>> *|*____________________________________*|* >>> >>> -- >>> l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm >>> >> >> The issue is: I want to install some packages using synaptic (or even >> apt-get will do) but those packages are not appearing in synaptic and >> apt-get is returning some kind of 'package not found' error. (That was the >> reason I thought that updates from update manager might be needed.) > > > > sudo apt-get update. > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > I am using the i386 version. See, I am able to install Ubuntu into the pen drive. I am able to boot from it as well. I am able to run the pre-installed applications also. But I am not able to install any new software through apt, as it simply does not appear in the available choices in synaptic. I am able to run update manager and get the updates, but it is not my aim to get the updates- I just want to install a few packages. So- how do I get those packages to appear in the synaptic list? -- Mihir Mehta, B. Tech. student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
