[Ubuntu-ch] Problems with USB-Sticks and Swiss Remix

[Daniel Stoni]

Hello Wolf, thank for your support and having shared your insight. In
case you have ideas or areas of concern you would like to discuss about,
don't hesitate to contact me.
Regards, Daniel
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Wolf Geldmacher schrieb:
> Hi Theo,
> 
> I'd like to second Dani's suggestion to do a plain install instead.
> 
> I've just done a plain install of Swiss-Remix 9.04 treating the (8GB) USB 
> Stick like a hard drive attached to USB. This works and results in a system 
> that is faster and also updatabe/patchable with a lot less waste of space: 
> the r/w live-system I previously had on the same stick (and for me the 
> supplied USB install on the Swiss-Remix DVD "just worked") could not be 
> brought to the current patch level - it ran out of space way before 
> finishing.
> 
> One additional remark - when doing it this way make sure that the root FS
> is mounted with the "relatime" or "noatime" option in /etc/fstab - otherwise
> you might find that you are wearing the memory stick too fast.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wolf
> 
> Am Monday 19 October 2009 11:44:57 schrieb Theo Schmidt:
>> Hi Dani and all
>>
>> I'm trying to make a useful Swiss Remix 9.04 USB Stick with persistent home
>> for my brother-in-law who lives in Brazil. Several attempts on two
>> different PCs still leave me with a not very useful solution. There are two
>> issues: booting speed and persistent home:
>>
>> 1) Booting speed
>> On an older 2.8 GHz PC the booting speed is 3 minutes, just like the DVD.
>> This is just acceptable. On the other PC, an ASUS Pundit, it takes 8
>> minutes, more than twice as with the DVD. With both PCs the stick is
>> clearly processing data because its LED blinks rapidly, but the intitial
>> Ubuntu screen doesn't go away as it usually does - it is disabled however.
>> The progress bar (or rather the "non-progress" bar which just goes back and
>> forht) doesn't come on until some minutes have passed. This is confusing.
>> Daniel Stoni tells me that he hasn' had this problem. Any ideas?
>>
>> 2) Ubuntu comes with a super tool which should allow the automatic creation
>> of bootable USB-Sticks:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Live_USB_creator It also offers to
>> create a persistent home. The only trouble is, it doesn't work. It does
>> create a file of the specified size called casper-rw which is writable and
>> executable by all and appears to format this in some way, but any data
>> stored when using the live-system isn't persistent. Dani told me it was a
>> bug, but the bug appears to be in Ubuntu 8.04 and corrected since 8.04.3.
>> There seem to be lots of people with this problem and numerous solutions,
>> (most rather complicated). Anybody know of a simple solution for 9.04? I
>> did try some other tools mentioned in
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_to_create_Live_USB_systems
>> UNetbootin doesn't offer persistence and in any case refused to accept my
>> USB-Stick. PortableLinux only does CD, not DVD images and also doesn't
>> accept my USB-Stick. (UbuntuLiveUSBcreator also complained about not being
>> able to determine the partition number, but after reformatting it was OK.
>> Reformatting doesn't help with the other tools.)
>>
>> Again, Dani tells me he has no problems and anyway I should use a real
>> install instead of a frugal install, but I prefer this for demo purposes,
>> because you can't really damage a frugal install (you can damage a
>> persistent home, of course). However my experience indicates that USB-media
>> with Ubuntu are more of an art than a science. Any of you have better
>> experiences? It must be possible, because I have never had problems with
>> Puppy, DSL, or Lernstick
>> http://www.imedias.ch/lernstick
>> The last in particular seems to work with any stick or SD-card and also
>> offers a boot CD for those PCs which can't boot from USB.
>>
>> Cheers, Theo
> 
> 
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