On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Robin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If its read only how do I install programs on it? Besides whats d use > making a read-only USB? Has Ubuntu started treading the path of microsoft? > > As far as user is concerned I do not know exactly. I did open d terminal > once ,the prompt came something like this "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I believe > there is no root user in the USB. It didnt ask for a username or password > either during booting just like how it is in a live CD.
What you have their is a live CD environment (testing could be one reason). Did I say read only? The image is read only but as it happens with live CDs, the running environment is on RAM, that's how you can install applications temporarily and gets lost when you reboot. You can run the mount command to find out where the root directory is. I don't know how M$ comes into the picture. Hmm... Root user wolud be there. Again, a "$ sudo bash" should give you a root shell (no password). Take a live CD to test. That shouldn't be a problem. I'll might be buying a laptop soon. Earlier I had made up my mind about the config I want (the lappy) and that I would struggle to get all the features to work (out of the box) but you have reminded me about a good thing to test the h/w first. Thanks :) Sharad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
