[Ubuntu-be] persistent ubuntu-live on a usb-stick

[Peter Stuart]

i tried out the guidelines described in the wiki
to make a bootable 1gb usb-stick (kingston data-traveller) with live-ubuntu
edgy
(but guidelines also apply to dapper, and with some tweaking kubuntu and
xubuntu too)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent
it worx great!

so anybody wanting to use ubuntu at work or anywhere else is able to do so.
it works like a live-cd in persistent mode (at startup press F6  and enter
<space>persistent
with usb-stick inserted) where any tweaks (keyboard, language,
firefox-settings, updates) reside on the stick.

but this workaround uses a 1gb stick with a 750Mb fat32 partition (where
ubuntu resides) and a 250 Mb ext2 partition
where all changes are kept.
so people who travel a lot can take their favorite distro on a key-chain,
along with their data/docs/presentations without having to drag a laptop
around.
which is nice. but it could also be nice to demonstrate this little powerful
swiss army knife on a fair.

the wiki is pretty straightforward, even for people who are fairly new to
the linux-approach, i guess (i've seen worse).
months ago, i only succeeded in getting puppy-linux to work on a stick
(flash-puppy) with QEMU,
which was nice but sloooow and in a very small window (you can start it up
from within windoze or linux).
but this ubuntu-stick rocks on a fairly new and somewhat souped-up cheap
machine
(amd sepron 1800mhz, 1.5 gb ram :-)

preparing the stick takes approx 15 minutes (and can be automated through a
script),
so maybe delivering people ubuntu on a stick (they pay the price for the 1
or 2 gb stick or they bring one along)
may be something to consider.
p
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