Re: CLUG revival meet - this Sunday afto 1 Aug

[Alister Niall]

I'll turn up too. - I should have that time free. :)

--- On Thu, 7/29/10, Ryan McCoskrie  wrote:

From: Ryan McCoskrie 
Subject: Re: CLUG revival meet - this Sunday afto 1 Aug
To: "Canterbury Linux User Group" 
Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 3:57 PM

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:21:24 you wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> My apologies for being bossy and pushy:
> 
> There seems to be a fair interest from a lot of you, over a few
> CLUG-related topics.
> 
> (I STILL don't know if I can be free on the eve of the 2nd or the 3rd,
> and Ryan has hassles with evenings.)
> 

Thank you for the consideration. It really made my week :- D

> So I propose...
> Place:  The Dux De Lux (corner of Hereford & Montreal Streets)
> Date:   Sunday, 1 August
> Time:   4pm until we're fed & thirst-quenched, weary, or bored
> Who:    I'm 185cm, grey-haired, bespectacled, slim, with a penguin sign
> Maybe some topics:
> - Meeting again or not (where, when, cost, parking, facilities)
> - The website and domain
> - Groups to include (LINUX, GNU/OSS, MicroSoft, PC hardware, Macs)
> - Future topics: Careers/networking, technical matters,
> Shatner/Stewart/Brooks/Mulgrew, embedded systems, on-site visits, etc.
> 

Sounds good. I'm almost certainly going to be there.

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Re: CLUG revival meet - this Sunday afto 1 Aug

[Ryan McCoskrie]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:21:24 you wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> My apologies for being bossy and pushy:
> 
> There seems to be a fair interest from a lot of you, over a few
> CLUG-related topics.
> 
> (I STILL don't know if I can be free on the eve of the 2nd or the 3rd,
> and Ryan has hassles with evenings.)
> 

Thank you for the consideration. It really made my week :- D

> So I propose...
> Place:  The Dux De Lux (corner of Hereford & Montreal Streets)
> Date:   Sunday, 1 August
> Time:   4pm until we're fed & thirst-quenched, weary, or bored
> Who:I'm 185cm, grey-haired, bespectacled, slim, with a penguin sign
> Maybe some topics:
> - Meeting again or not (where, when, cost, parking, facilities)
> - The website and domain
> - Groups to include (LINUX, GNU/OSS, MicroSoft, PC hardware, Macs)
> - Future topics: Careers/networking, technical matters,
> Shatner/Stewart/Brooks/Mulgrew, embedded systems, on-site visits, etc.
> 

Sounds good. I'm almost certainly going to be there.

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Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

[Philip Charles]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, you wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've got a 1GB flash drive on which I have placed the Ubuntu Desktop
> 10.04 cd and made bootable (using the windows program 'UltraISO' which
> let me copy an iso directly to the flash drive and made it work).
> 
> This flash drive boots fine into Ubuntu desktop just like the cd.
> 
> However, I'd now like changes I make while booted from this flash drive
> to be kept on the flash drive. Like when I use it to boot my wife's
> laptop - so she can't accuse me of meddling with her windows setup ;-)
> she doesn't like change - anyway, it needs to download 3rd party
> drivers for the wireless card but these are then lost on reboot. So is
> browsing history and updates, etc.
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to change some settings, etc to make
> the livecd flash drive updatable in this way?
> Or should I really be doing an Ubuntu installation with the flash drive
> as the target for the installation instead? (would this still let me
> boot any pc with it?).
> 
> Thanks for ideas or suggestions.
> Bryce Stenberg.
> 


I suggest you _install_ Ubuntu onto a stick and make it bootable.  But one 
gig is too small.  I have done this with Debian on a 4GB stick.

Phil.

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Re: Any face-to-face CLUGging on 1 to 4 August?

[Rik Tindall]

Hi Carl & All,

Additional to your discussion..

On 23/07/10 12:22, Carl Turney wrote:

Hello CLUG,

I'll be moving to Chch from Greymouth around early September, and 
would like to meet fellow LINUX folk.


Will visit Chch from 1 to 4 August in the mean time.  Anyone up for 
some pizza and coke around then?





Next Weds 4 Aug, 7.30pm to 9.30pm at South Library, we have the ICT lab 
to use (first Weds monthly) and to plan for:


Software Freedom Day   : 
http://www.infohelp.co.nz/sfd10.html


All welcome, and any feedback please.

Maybe see you Sunday too. Thanks.

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Kind regards,
Rik Tindall
03-332-1069 or 027-406-0077

Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

[Robert Fisher]

> Use USB-Creator in ubuntu which gives you the option to have a data
> partition.
>
Or you could try..
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
which caters for several different distros.

Rob

Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

[Tom Smith]

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:31 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bryce Stenberg  wrote:
> > Cheers Kevin, running it now - just to make it trickier for novices to find
> > they called it 'Startup Disk Creator' off the menu when booted with live cd
> > - I had just assumed that created some sort of rescue disk like under
> > windows.  I had seen reference to usb-creator when googling but had not
> > realized it was part of the live cd.
> > Thanks again, Bryce.
> 
> I am not sure that they allow a data portion on a 1G drive, you might
> need a 2G one?

Hi People

I am more than likely wrong but had been under the impression that the
data partition was only for a /home

I will need to re run the usb-creator program again as on a reboot it
didn't have my downloaded wireless drivers. am Using Ubuntu 10.10

Take Care

Tom

Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bryce Stenberg  wrote:
> Cheers Kevin, running it now - just to make it trickier for novices to find
> they called it 'Startup Disk Creator' off the menu when booted with live cd
> - I had just assumed that created some sort of rescue disk like under
> windows.  I had seen reference to usb-creator when googling but had not
> realized it was part of the live cd.
> Thanks again, Bryce.

I am not sure that they allow a data portion on a 1G drive, you might
need a 2G one?

RE: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

[Bryce Stenberg]

Cheers Kevin, running it now - just to make it trickier for novices to
find they called it 'Startup Disk Creator' off the menu when booted with
live cd - I had just assumed that created some sort of rescue disk like
under windows.  I had seen reference to usb-creator when googling but
had not realized it was part of the live cd.
Thanks again, Bryce.




From: Kevin Harvey [mailto:kev...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 10:07 AM
To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz
Subject: Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?


Use USB-Creator in ubuntu which gives you the option to have a
data partition.

On 30/07/10 09:36, Bryce Stenberg wrote: 

Hello everyone,
 
I've got a 1GB flash drive on which I have placed the
Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 cd and made bootable (using the windows program
'UltraISO' which let me copy an iso directly to the flash drive and made
it work).
 
This flash drive boots fine into Ubuntu desktop just
like the cd.
 
However, I'd now like changes I make while booted from
this flash drive to be kept on the flash drive. Like when I use it to
boot my wife's laptop - so she can't accuse me of meddling with her
windows setup ;-)  she doesn't like change - anyway, it needs to
download 3rd party drivers for the wireless card but these are then lost
on reboot. So is browsing history and updates, etc.
 
Does anyone know if it is possible to change some
settings, etc to make the livecd flash drive updatable in this way?
Or should I really be doing an Ubuntu installation with
the flash drive as the target for the installation instead? (would this
still let me boot any pc with it?). 
 
Thanks for ideas or suggestions.
Bryce Stenberg.
 

 

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Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

[Kevin Harvey]

Use USB-Creator in ubuntu which gives you the option to have a data 
partition.


On 30/07/10 09:36, Bryce Stenberg wrote:

Hello everyone,
I've got a 1GB flash drive on which I have placed the Ubuntu Desktop 
10.04 cd and made bootable (using the windows program 'UltraISO' which 
let me copy an iso directly to the flash drive and made it work).

This flash drive boots fine into Ubuntu desktop just like the cd.
However, I'd now like changes I make while booted from this flash 
drive to be kept on the flash drive. Like when I use it to boot my 
wife's laptop - so she can't accuse me of meddling with her windows 
setup ;-)  she doesn't like change - anyway, it needs to download 3rd 
party drivers for the wireless card but these are then lost on reboot. 
So is browsing history and updates, etc.
Does anyone know if it is possible to change some settings, etc to 
make the livecd flash drive updatable in this way?
Or should I really be doing an Ubuntu installation with the flash 
drive as the target for the installation instead? (would this still 
let me boot any pc with it?).

Thanks for ideas or suggestions.
Bryce Stenberg.

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LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

[Bryce Stenberg]

Hello everyone,

I've got a 1GB flash drive on which I have placed the Ubuntu Desktop
10.04 cd and made bootable (using the windows program 'UltraISO' which
let me copy an iso directly to the flash drive and made it work).

This flash drive boots fine into Ubuntu desktop just like the cd.

However, I'd now like changes I make while booted from this flash drive
to be kept on the flash drive. Like when I use it to boot my wife's
laptop - so she can't accuse me of meddling with her windows setup ;-)
she doesn't like change - anyway, it needs to download 3rd party drivers
for the wireless card but these are then lost on reboot. So is browsing
history and updates, etc.

Does anyone know if it is possible to change some settings, etc to make
the livecd flash drive updatable in this way?
Or should I really be doing an Ubuntu installation with the flash drive
as the target for the installation instead? (would this still let me
boot any pc with it?).

Thanks for ideas or suggestions.
Bryce Stenberg.




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