LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Bryce Stenberg
but these are then lost on reboot. So is browsing history and updates, etc. Does anyone know if it is possible to change some settings, etc to make the livecd flash drive updatable in this way? Or should I really be doing an Ubuntu installation with the flash drive as the target for the installation

Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin Harvey
of meddling with her windows setup ;-) she doesn't like change - anyway, it needs to download 3rd party drivers for the wireless card but these are then lost on reboot. So is browsing history and updates, etc. Does anyone know if it is possible to change some settings, etc to make the livecd flash drive

RE: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Bryce Stenberg
not realized it was part of the live cd. Thanks again, Bryce. From: Kevin Harvey [mailto:kev...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 10:07 AM To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable

Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote: Cheers Kevin, running it now - just to make it trickier for novices to find they called it 'Startup Disk Creator' off the menu when booted with live cd - I had just assumed that created some sort of rescue disk like under

Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Tom Smith
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 11:31 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bryce Stenberg br...@hrnz.co.nz wrote: Cheers Kevin, running it now - just to make it trickier for novices to find they called it 'Startup Disk Creator' off the menu when booted with live cd - I had just

Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Fisher
Use USB-Creator in ubuntu which gives you the option to have a data partition. Or you could try.. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/ which caters for several different distros. Rob

Re: LiveCD on a flash drive - make it updatable?

2010-07-29 Thread Philip Charles
to download 3rd party drivers for the wireless card but these are then lost on reboot. So is browsing history and updates, etc. Does anyone know if it is possible to change some settings, etc to make the livecd flash drive updatable in this way? Or should I really be doing an Ubuntu installation