Greg,
Based on my quick read here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD
I'm pretty sure the "live" Ubuntu can support the persistent image
paradigm you're thinking of.
This is exactly the model I think we'll all probably end up with when
Emmanuel Goldstein finishes hacking our financial infrastructure, and we
want to do our online banking - boot off a linux CD, do our business,
and shut it down, with little-to-no persistence at all, beyond some
basic preferences.
Sp
Sean Phelan
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Greg M. Johnson wrote:
I received as a Christmas present a USB stick with a bootable Ubuntu
9.10 installation on it. It was fairly cool, but I probably was
expecting something a little bit different. It seemed that the
purpose of this product was to show you Ubuntu, and let you install
it. Before you laugh, consider that Knoppix and some other live CD
distros have had an option for creating a persistent boot image. This
Ubuntu live "CD" wasn't for the purpose of regularly booting the USB
stick as your distro-on-the-side. In Ubuntu's menus, I did not run
across an option for creating a persistent disk image, as I remember
Knoppix having a while back.
Any thoughts? Is there a distro that today makes for a good "live CD"
on USB? Is that whole idea overrated, is there a better way for a
quick fix?
--
Greg M. Johnson
http://pterandon.blogspot.com
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