Comments on: Ubuntu from your flash drive – easier than ever before

By: Vincent

Vincent — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:12:26 +0000

Hi Inma,

FAT is most common on USB flash drives and can be read from many operating systems, so you can still use the drive. IIRC, it also doesn’t contain the overhead of a.o. journaling, which saves quite some writes and thus lengthens the lifetime of the drive.

lz doesn’t really help, but the line in general doesn’t really do anything anymore, I need to remove that from the post.

It does take long to load, because the whole operating system is compressed to fit on a USB flash drive, and needs to be uncompressed and loaded into memory each time you boot it. I have experienced that at some hardware, it takes ages to go from the language selection screen to the actual boot up, while on other hardware, it works just fine.

To change the language and timeout I suppose you’ll have to look through a few .cnf files to find the relevant options.

By: Inma

Inma — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:59:06 +0000

I made it with Xubuntu 9.10, and it worked, but with some difficulties.

The pendrive partition where it was installed has FAT32 format (why FAT32?)

Persistency didn’t work, so I added the lines above, and it didn’t work either. I changed this: initrd=/casper/initrd.gz into this: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz and not it works. Did I make rigth?

Is normal that it takes so long to load? I mean since I pick “Start Xubutu” till the users selector appears.

How can I change the default language from the list on the beginning and the time out?

Thanks.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:18:35 +0000

Suyog, have you followed that link Juno posted?

By: suyog

suyog — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:14:38 +0000

@Juno, How did you do it? I am still unable to listen to music with my Nokia BH-501 from my Dell Inspiron Laptop.
I am using Ubuntu 9.04 with latest Blueman 1.20
I am able to connect to A2DP service but dont know how to actually stream music to headset.

could you please let me know?

Suyog

By: Anirban

Anirban — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:21:46 +0000

Hi Vincent, I worked it out. The machine in question had a static ip, so I had to change the network from dhcp and fill in the details. Sorry for the bother.

By: Andriy

Andriy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:14:34 +0000

Thanks. Works like a charm. Helped me to install xubuntu to my netbook.

By: Anirban

Anirban — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:55:19 +0000

Hi Vincent, nice post. I am a Ubuntu user, and wanted to give Xubuntu (9.04) a try. Everything went smoothly. There is only one hitch. after booting from the usb, xubuntu fails to recognize the network, and I cant go online. I am not using wireless, when I boot from hard drive to windows XP, internet works. Any suggestions? Do I have to manually set up stuff? Thanks again.

By: felipe_cabrera

felipe_cabrera — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:27:45 +0000

Hi, is it possible to encrypt the installation on your flash drive?

Thanks,

Felipe

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:55:59 +0000

Hi Jens, could you try

Booting from the same USB flash drive in another computer?
Installing Xubuntu 9.04 to a different USB flash drive and then booting from that on the same computer?
Installing a different version of Xubuntu to the same USB drive and boot from that on the same computer?

If one or more of those works, then it might very well be a hardware problem.

By: Jens

Jens — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:05:49 +0000

hi,

I need help. I used the tool to put a 9.04 xubuntu on a usb stick.

I boot the usb stick and I get

SYSLINUX (one line of stuff)
boot:

this looks like a prompt I hit enter and get an error that “linux” image could not be found

What went wrong during my installation?