Run From Pocket Drive Installer Option?

[Nuno Paquete]

Hi,

No dia 18 de Nov de 2010, às 23:50, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland at ubuntu.com> escreveu:

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> 8, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Apologies if this is not the right place to ask, but one of the most
>> interesting and valuable features in Ubuntu for me, is the ability to
>> run an installation entirely from a USB disk. This is also particularly
>> attractive for encouraging our community to test developer releases and
>> help us bug reporting, triage, and fixing.
>> 
>> Today the installer has two options:
>> 
>>      * Try Ubuntu
>>      * Install Ubuntu
>> 
>> I am wondering if we should provide a third option for those who have
>> booted from a USB disk with persistance switched on: "Run Ubuntu From
>> Your Pocket Driver" (or some better wording), which will allow you to
>> use the USB stick as the main disk.
>> 
>> I think this could be a really valuable feature for (a) people trying
>> Ubuntu in more real-world situations where they set up their email, chat
>> accounts etc and run it from the USB stick, and (b) help us with
>> testing.
> 
> We could probably just detect if you have a persistence file on the
> media, and if there's anything of value in it, and if so, then change
> the verbiage from "Try Ubuntu" to "Launch Your Live Ubuntu" or
> something more appropriate.
> 
> :-Dustin
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I think you should try to detect persistence file on the USB stick. This way we could run our personalized OS on every diferent machine.
This would be a great alternative to live CDs, it stays in the middle of a live CD and a hard disk installation.

Nuno Paquete