UbuntUSB

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:27:30PM -0800, Corey Burger said:
>   
>> Nifty modification of Ubuntu to put it on a USB stick
>>
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7418276314.html
>>     
>
> Well, "stick" might be pushing things, as it's got a minimum size
> requirement of 10 Gigs.  :)
>
> I'm not real big on the "$30 a pop licensed commercial software needed"
> aspect, either.  There are lots of USB-booting Linux distros that don't
> expect you to pay for the privilege.  I've got one in my pocket; I was
> excited at the prospect of replacing it with Ubuntu.
>   
1 GB flash USB stick is expensive but not exorbitantly so, and has more 
space on it than a live CD. Colin, is it possible to get our live CD 
tech to boot on USB flash memory sticks too? Would it be possible to 
have a read-write filesystem so you could store data on that? Would you 
partition it into a R-O bit and a read-write bit for personal data?

Mark