Re: partitioning a u s b drive

2017-03-01 Thread B. Henry
Depending on what you mean by a usb drive, e.g. I guess you mean a standard hard drive that you will connect to your computer via a usb port, but maybe you mean a usb flash memory stick,(thumbdrive, pendrive, or what ever you like to call those), how you partition will vary. If it is a

Re: partitioning a u s b drive

2017-03-01 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, well I use Vinux which is soon changing from Ubuntu under the hood to Fedora. I do not believe speakup is maintained anymore but if you install speechd-up and from the terminal you can run sudo speechd-up you should be able to use it. This does work from Vinux not sure about Ubuntu, some

Re: partitioning a u s b drive

2017-03-01 Thread Rob Whyte
Hi, when you hit space on the drive, you should be given options like format, ext4 and a mount point of / 'slash'. Do you already know that though? cheers Rob On 02/03/17 03:22, Daniel Crone wrote: > Ubuntu 16.04 is on my computer. > I want to use my ubuntu dvd to install ubuntu to a u s b

partitioning a u s b drive

2017-03-01 Thread Daniel Crone
Ubuntu 16.04 is on my computer. I want to use my ubuntu dvd to install ubuntu to a u s b drive, which has partitions that would need to be reformatted. I know that during installing, I would choose, ‘something else’, then go to sdb to do what I need to prepare this drive. How may I find out how