Hi Dani and all I'm trying to make a useful Swiss Remix 9.04 USB Stick with persistent home for my brother-in-law who lives in Brazil. Several attempts on two different PCs still leave me with a not very useful solution. There are two issues: booting speed and persistent home:
1) Booting speed On an older 2.8 GHz PC the booting speed is 3 minutes, just like the DVD. This is just acceptable. On the other PC, an ASUS Pundit, it takes 8 minutes, more than twice as with the DVD. With both PCs the stick is clearly processing data because its LED blinks rapidly, but the intitial Ubuntu screen doesn't go away as it usually does - it is disabled however. The progress bar (or rather the "non-progress" bar which just goes back and forht) doesn't come on until some minutes have passed. This is confusing. Daniel Stoni tells me that he hasn' had this problem. Any ideas? 2) Ubuntu comes with a super tool which should allow the automatic creation of bootable USB-Sticks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Live_USB_creator It also offers to create a persistent home. The only trouble is, it doesn't work. It does create a file of the specified size called casper-rw which is writable and executable by all and appears to format this in some way, but any data stored when using the live-system isn't persistent. Dani told me it was a bug, but the bug appears to be in Ubuntu 8.04 and corrected since 8.04.3. There seem to be lots of people with this problem and numerous solutions, (most rather complicated). Anybody know of a simple solution for 9.04? I did try some other tools mentioned in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_to_create_Live_USB_systems UNetbootin doesn't offer persistence and in any case refused to accept my USB-Stick. PortableLinux only does CD, not DVD images and also doesn't accept my USB-Stick. (UbuntuLiveUSBcreator also complained about not being able to determine the partition number, but after reformatting it was OK. Reformatting doesn't help with the other tools.) Again, Dani tells me he has no problems and anyway I should use a real install instead of a frugal install, but I prefer this for demo purposes, because you can't really damage a frugal install (you can damage a persistent home, of course). However my experience indicates that USB-media with Ubuntu are more of an art than a science. Any of you have better experiences? It must be possible, because I have never had problems with Puppy, DSL, or Lernstick http://www.imedias.ch/lernstick The last in particular seems to work with any stick or SD-card and also offers a boot CD for those PCs which can't boot from USB. Cheers, Theo -- Ubuntu-ch mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ch
