Re: [orca-list] completely accessible and portable solution thanks to Orca!

[Victor Tsaran <vtsaran gmail com>]

Daragh,
How did you get Persistent installation to work? I tried QUbuntu, but it 
will only work if you specify Persistent during the boot.
I went with VMWarePlayer approach and like it a lot.
Vic

Darragh wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I've been working on two things in work over the last few hours.
>
> Both are thanks to documentation on www.pendrivelinux.com.
>
> First is I have Ubuntu working side by side on a windows machine here at
> work so it's very easy to get Ubuntu and more importantly speech within
> minutes for quick demonstrations.  It's perfect for situations where you
> need to demonstrate what we're doing here quickly but only have a windows
> machine to work from.  Unfortunately, that's a common problem!
>
> Second but more significant in my opinion is Ubuntu booting from a 2GB pen
> drive.  I have all updates applied for 7.10, Orca from the 2-20 branch and
> the latest nightly build of firefox.  Because it's a persistent
> installation as aposed to a live CD solution, I can bring the pen drive
> anywhere with a working and up to date system and work from anywhere. 
> That was important yesterday as I needed to convince someone that Linux
> will run faster and more officiently than the Vista installation they had
> on their PC.  Speech didn't really factor in to it for them but it was an
> obvious importants to me as without it I wouldn't have given a very
> effective sales pitch!
> I think the best thing about the pen drive installation though is that it
> is the perfect solution for someone who wants to try linux but feers
> repartitioning and wants a ready to go solution right from boot up.
>
> Darragh
> www.digitaldarragh.com
>
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