Portable Ubuntu

[Claudio Cesar Sánchez Tejeda]

Hi again,

I didn't use AndLinux as base. I installed a complete Ubuntu system with
Colinux from Windows (I wrote a howto in spanish regarding this in my
blog, http://demonccc.com.ar). After install Ubuntu with Colinux, I
modified some files to it initialize only gnome-panel. You can view the
files that was changed in the rootfs.img file. Also, you can view the
source code of the scripts that Portable Ubuntu uses to initialize and
shutdown in /usr/local/bin directory.

Sorry for the delay, but I was very busy, Je!

Long life to Ubuntu!

Regards!

Claudio César Sánchez Tejeda
DemonCcC
Córdoba, Argentina
Tel: +54 9 351 5599208
Site: http://demonccc.com.ar


El mié, 08-04-2009 a las 22:35 +0100, ago escribió:

> >  ago -- but:
> >  - couldn't find any source for portable ubuntu, perhaps it's not on SF?
> 
> I hope that demonccc will contribute to the discussion here, from what
> I can see, portable ubuntu is essentially composed of:
> 
> * binaries for: colinux + xming + pulseaudio + linux.sys + kernel (I
> do not think any of those was modified, so you can grab the sources in
> the respective projects)
> * 1 initrd (which can be opened up)
> * 1 configuration file in XML (which you can read)
> * 2 batch programs (which you can read), those essentially start
> colinux with the above configuration, xming, and pulseaudio
> * 1 disk image (which you can loopmount)
> 
> This set-up is similar to AndLinux which, IIRC, was used as a base for
> PortableUbuntu.
> I am not sure what modifications if any went into the initrd, I cannot
> check the initrd now, but I assume that it comes from some other
> colinx bundle. As for the root disk image, as you can see in
> http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/UbuntuBase and as confirmed by my
> preliminary experiments, it seems that a fairly standard dd partition
> image dump will work with very few changes. Making the same disk image
> accessible from two different set-ups might be a bit more challenging,
> but the main issue is about the robustness of the
> colinux/xming/pulseaudio set-up and, as you point out, about the
> efforts involved in maintaining another custom kernel/initrd.
> 
> Ago
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