On 9/22/2010 6:13 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hiyas gang
Before I start this long email, I wish to put on record my gratitude
to Nathan (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nhandler) who along with others
does the 'behind the scenes' stuff generally and helps me and the
project so much. (hints to
Am 22.09.2010 23:34, schrieb Gilles:
At 23:21 22/09/2010, Leszek Lesner wrote:
Here are commands summed up.
1. DD (2GB Persistency Image):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/your_path_to_usbstick/casper-rw bs=1024
count=2000
2. Format the persistent image
mkfs.ext2
Am 23.09.2010 14:03, schrieb Gilles:
Hello
I need to resize an NTFS partition that contains XPSP3. Since I have a
working Lubuntu live USB key, I was wondering if I could just run
apt-get to install Gparted and its dependencies, instead of burning
the Gparted live ISO?
On Thursday 23,September,2010 08:55 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote:
Persistency(with casper-rw) will save all the changes to files comparing
with the live system data. So applications that you installed later with
apt-get and even configuration files you created in your home folder.
How about kernel
Am 23.09.2010 15:23, schrieb Goh Lip:
On Thursday 23,September,2010 08:55 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote:
Persistency(with casper-rw) will save all the changes to files comparing
with the live system data. So applications that you installed later with
apt-get and even configuration files you created
At 15:23 23/09/2010, Goh Lip wrote:
How about kernel upgrades (as in 2.6.35-22-generic from
2.6.35-21-generic), does that keep that too? If not, how to endure
it does or at least how to make sure the new kernel boots up the next time?
Apparently, the kernel (vmlinuz + possibly initrd.(lz/gz))
On Thursday 23,September,2010 09:29 PM, Leszek Lesner wrote:
Kernel changes will be also changed but only in the persistency file.
As the bootloader normaly searches for a vmlinuz and initrd on the fat32
portion of a usb stick, you need to replace the old vmlinuz and initrd
files on your usb
Hi all,
Grub does not detect all partitions possibly because a
system has both a rescue partition and a main partition for
Windows. Happened to me on 2 Vista machines. Reinsalling
Vista did not fix the problem. Also tried to reinstall GRUB
and update it without success. Also tried and
On Thursday 23,September,2010 09:36 PM, Gilles wrote:
Apparently, the kernel (vmlinuz + possibly initrd.(lz/gz)) live outside
the live root file system filesystem.squashfs, so must be copied
manually in \casper after mounting the USB key in the running Lubuntu.
I'd also like to know if the
At 15:46 23/09/2010, Goh Lip wrote:
Hopefully there is no need to do a update-initramfs -u, but I'll
watch out for it.
What does update-initramfs -u?
Wonderful, you gave me an idea. I'll have to give it a try next
time. - My Lubuntu is a 'real install' on a usb stick, but I am not
At 16:30 23/09/2010, Goh Lip wrote:
But just to add or elaborate, what I did was to install Lubuntu like
to a hard disk but it is to a usb stick instead. That's the whole
explanation. The advantages are that, of course, there is no need
for persistent or casper-rw, and things should process
Sounds good. However, the image that is sent to the USB key is the current
Lubuntu ISO, while I need to remove most of the items in the Menu, add a
couple of applications, so I guess this is not what I need, and I should
look at remastering the ISO from the customized, running USB key.
I'm
On Thursday 23,September,2010 10:44 PM, Gilles wrote:
Sounds good. However, the image that is sent to the USB key is the
current Lubuntu ISO, while I need to remove most of the items in the
Menu, add a couple of applications, so I guess this is not what I need,
and I should look at remastering
On Thursday 23,September,2010 10:30 PM, Goh Lip wrote:
Giles, if you need further information, please let us know.
Ah, I've found an old post that might help...
http://www.mail-archive.com/lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net/msg01347.html
Regards - Goh Lip
Am 23.09.2010 16:44, schrieb Gilles:
At 16:30 23/09/2010, Goh Lip wrote:
But just to add or elaborate, what I did was to install Lubuntu like
to a hard disk but it is to a usb stick instead. That's the whole
explanation. The advantages are that, of course, there is no need for
persistent or
Am 23.09.2010 16:49, schrieb Bob Trevithick:
Sounds good. However, the image that is sent to the USB key is the current
Lubuntu ISO, while I need to remove most of the items in the Menu, add a
couple of applications, so I guess this is not what I need, and I should
look at remastering the ISO
On Thursday 23,September,2010 09:52 PM, Pierre Yahoo wrote:
Grub does not detect all partitions possibly because a system has both a
rescue partition and a main partition for Windows. Happened to me on 2
Vista machines. Reinsalling Vista did not fix the problem. Also tried
to reinstall GRUB
On 19 September 2010 15:44, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed Lubuntu 10.04 on a laptop and since upgraded it to
10.04.1. At the time that I installed it, I noticed that login didn't
work so I set it up to do autologin (i.e. I bypassed the whole LXDM
login
Hi Pierre,
It's not actually Windows fault on this one (which I know is rare). More and
more manufacturers are using hidden partitions as it saves them shipping out
a recovery CD / DVD. For the re-installation of the Vista / Win7 MBR and
also grub2 have a read of
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