On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Mihir Mehta <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:10 PM, ankush <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Mihir Mehta <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi people, >>> >>> I need to set up a Ubuntu 10.10 startup disk (USB pen drive) so that my >>> sister can use Ubuntu on a computer without having to install it on that >>> computer at all (The reason for this is that it's my parents' computer and I >>> don't want them to have strange problems with dual boot when I am away, at >>> college.). >>> >>> But when I tried doing this with a 2 GB pen drive, I wasn't initially >>> able to install any software packages. After this, I tried installing all >>> the updates with Update Manager, but that caused the memory to become full. >>> >>> So what's the solution? Can I install the packages I need to without >>> having to install all the updates? Or is it necessary to install the >>> updates? In that case, what is the minimum size of the pen drive I will >>> need? >>> >>> Help will be appreciated. Please let me know if I've left something out. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mihir. >>> >>> -- >>> Mihir Mehta, >>> B. Tech. student, >>> Department of Computer Science and Engineering, >>> Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. >>> >>> -- >>> l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm >>> >> >> >> You are able to use the 2GB stick/with the ISO loaded on your squashfs >> >> I can understand from your post is that you are having som e sort of >> memory full issues to which I can say is that increase the size of the >> pendrive >> >> any other problem please bring it out >> -- >> ____________________________________ >> *| without fear | without remorse | without pity **|* >> *| >> **|* >> *|*http://god-is-an-alien.blogspot.com/<http://god-is-an-alien.blogspot.com/> >> *|* >> *| >> **|* >> *|*http://wediefornation.blogspot.com/<http://wediefornation.blogspot.com/> >> *|* >> *| >> **|* >> *|*http://ankscorek.blogspot.com/ <http://ankscorek.blogspot.com/> >> *|* >> *| >> **|* >> *|*http://sites.google.com/site/agnayelinux<http://sites.google.com/site/agnayelinux/> >> / <http://sites.google.com/site/agnayelinux/> *|* >> *| >> **|* >> *|*____________________________________*|* >> >> -- >> l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm >> > > The issue is: I want to install some packages using synaptic (or even > apt-get will do) but those packages are not appearing in synaptic and > apt-get is returning some kind of 'package not found' error. (That was the > reason I thought that updates from update manager might be needed.) sudo apt-get update. -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
