UbuntUSB

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 06:26:24PM +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> 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?

Tollef implemented the guts of this recently:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDPersistence

I don't think it'll boot off a USB stick yet, but it ought not to be too
difficult seeing as we have all the initramfs facilities at our
disposal. If none of us have a 1 GB stick, maybe we should expense one
for the distro sprint. :-)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]