Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread C David Rigby
On Saturday 08,May,2010 06:24 PM, Goh Lip wrote: On 05/08/2010 05:34 PM, C David Rigby wrote: On Saturday 08,May,2010 05:27 PM, Goh Lip wrote: On 05/08/2010 05:02 PM, C David Rigby wrote: On Saturday 08,May,2010 04:53 PM, Goh Lip wrote: I assumed that if I do a manual partitioning of the US

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread Goh Lip
On 05/08/2010 06:02 PM, C David Rigby wrote: And still another option is an actual, small USB hard disk. Prices are lower now for this. They tend to be pretty slow, in my experience. I am running Lubuntu off a 2Gb flash thumb drive! And the (good) thumb drives they are selling here now are a

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread Goh Lip
On 05/08/2010 05:34 PM, C David Rigby wrote: On Saturday 08,May,2010 05:27 PM, Goh Lip wrote: On 05/08/2010 05:02 PM, C David Rigby wrote: On Saturday 08,May,2010 04:53 PM, Goh Lip wrote: I assumed that if I do a manual partitioning of the USB flash drive's storage, I could simply skip alloc

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread C David Rigby
On Saturday 08,May,2010 05:50 PM, Phillip Whiteside wrote: Hi, with regards to the degradation, if you are using persistance, then you will be re-writing to the usb (albeit not as frequently). My advice to people installing to usb is always to get a usb stick that is certified for Vista or Wi

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, with regards to the degradation, if you are using persistance, then you will be re-writing to the usb (albeit not as frequently). My advice to people installing to usb is always to get a usb stick that is certified for Vista or Win 7 as 'Readyboost', these devices are both faster than 'unbrand

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread C David Rigby
On Saturday 08,May,2010 05:27 PM, Goh Lip wrote: On 05/08/2010 05:02 PM, C David Rigby wrote: On Saturday 08,May,2010 04:53 PM, Goh Lip wrote: Hello Goh Lip, I was planning on doing this at some stage (I just installed Lubuntu to my laptop in a separate partition and I am reading up on upda

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread Goh Lip
On 05/08/2010 05:02 PM, C David Rigby wrote: On Saturday 08,May,2010 04:53 PM, Goh Lip wrote: Hello Goh Lip, I was planning on doing this at some stage (I just installed Lubuntu to my laptop in a separate partition and I am reading up on update-grub right now). I've read that one should NOT

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread C David Rigby
On Saturday 08,May,2010 04:53 PM, Goh Lip wrote: I've come across many instances (mainly Ubuntu) of people installing the OS to the usb and they are actually running the livecd OS. There are many guides (like penlinux?) and including unetbootin that will install the livecd at the usb drives.

[Lubuntu-desktop] Installing Lubuntu to usb drives

2010-05-08 Thread Goh Lip
I've come across many instances (mainly Ubuntu) of people installing the OS to the usb and they are actually running the livecd OS. There are many guides (like penlinux?) and including unetbootin that will install the livecd at the usb drives. There is nothing wrong with that, provided people