Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-13 Thread J. Alex Aycinena
Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 17:53:33 Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? snip

OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Anne Wilson
Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I ask because I installed F9 and Mandriva 2008 onto sticks for tests with my EeePC. Today I put the Mandriva stick into

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Frank Murphy
Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I have F9 on a 4gb usb stick. (not-live installed to) As long as the Box is usb-bootable there's

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Knute Johnson
Frank Murphy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I have F9 on a 4gb usb stick. (not-live installed to) As long as the Box is

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Frank Murphy
Knute Johnson wrote: I tried several times to load F9 on a 4GB stick but it ran out of space and wouldn't load. Did you do anything other than just run the install? I just ran the install, but had another usb-stick (4) marked as sswap during the install Frank -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Meyer
Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I ask because I installed F9 and Mandriva 2008 onto sticks for tests with my EeePC. Today I put the

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 12 December 2008 17:14:35 Frank Murphy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I have F9 on a 4gb usb stick. (not-live

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Meyer
Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I ask because I installed F9 and Mandriva 2008 onto sticks for tests with my

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Linuxguy123
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 10:53 -0700, Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I ask because I installed F9 and

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 12 December 2008 17:53:33 Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? snip Yes, done this a lot. Current best

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? I ask because I installed F9 and Mandriva 2008 onto sticks for tests with my EeePC. Today I put

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Phil Meyer
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 17:53:33 Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does anyone actually do this? snip

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 12 December 2008 18:11:20 Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 17:53:33 Phil Meyer wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop.

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Knute Johnson wrote: I tried several times to load F9 on a 4GB stick but it ran out of space and wouldn't load. I'd suggest using the liveusb-creator with one of the live images, that will copy the compressed live image to the USB stick and you'll have plenty of space left for the overlay with

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: On Friday 12 December 2008 17:14:35 Frank Murphy wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. Does

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread David Burns
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Arthur Pemberton pem...@gmail.com wrote: I have only tried this with F10 KDE, and the experience has been nothing short of amazing. I did have some file corruption at one point which prompted me to reimage it. Is

Re: OT: your desktop on a stick

2008-12-12 Thread Arthur Pemberton
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:47 PM, David Burns tdb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Arthur Pemberton pem...@gmail.com wrote: I have only tried this with F10 KDE, and the experience has been nothing short of amazing. I did have some file corruption at one point which prompted