LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?
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. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm
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. // /DISCLAIMER: //If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original./ /Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm/ / / #
RE: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?
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. DISCLAIMER: If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by reply email, facsimile or collect telephone call to +64 3 9641200 and destroy the original. Please refer to full DISCLAIMER at http://www.hrnz.co.nz/eDisclaimer.htm
Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz 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?
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:31 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz 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?
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?
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. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business
