[orca-list] Booting Vibuntu from a USB pen drive.

["Anthony Sales" <tony sales rncb ac uk>]

If any of you have succeeded in getting Vibuntu to boot from a USB pen, using
Unetbootin, then you may have realised by now that this is booted as a read
only image which means you cannot save any changes or documents to the pen.
The disadvantage of this is that you can't save anything you produce during
the session to the USB pen itself, although you can access any music files
etc you have placed on the pen by inserting it as a USB memory stick during
another session. The advantage of this however is that you can experiment as
much as you like and if it all goes pair-shaped you can simply reboot and
return to the default settings. However it would be nice to have the choice
of whether to have a persistent directory enabled or not. The USB installer
provided in Ubuntu 8.10 only seems to work with the original distro or iso,
and I have not been able to find a way around this yet. I know that this can
be done manually, but I really want to find a simple way to do this that a
novice should be able to attempt. In the meantime I have found that a
pragmatic solution is to simply carry around 2 1Gb USB pens, one to boot from
the other to save documents to etc. If anyone knows a way to fool the Ubuntu
USB installer into installing a customised distro please let me know.

drbongo
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