---- "Greg M. Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > I received as a Christmas present a USB stick with a bootable Ubuntu 9.10 > installation on it. It was fairly cool, but I probably was expecting > something a little bit different. It seemed that the purpose of this > product was to show you Ubuntu, and let you install it. Before you laugh, > consider that Knoppix and some other live CD distros have had an option for > creating a persistent boot image. This Ubuntu live "CD" wasn't for the > purpose of regularly booting the USB stick as your distro-on-the-side. In > Ubuntu's menus, I did not run across an option for creating a persistent > disk image, as I remember Knoppix having a while back. > > > Any thoughts? Is there a distro that today makes for a good "live CD" on > USB? Is that whole idea overrated, is there a better way for a quick fix? > > > > > > -- > Greg M. Johnson > http://pterandon.blogspot.com
System->Administration->USB Startup Disk Creator will give you a persistent bootable live USB stick if there's more than 1 Gigabyte on the stick. Bob Burroughs _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 3 - Arduino Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration Apr 7 - Nagios
