Ubuntu on a stick
Neil Cherry
ncherry at linuxha.com
Tue Dec 16 15:58:11 UTC 2008
Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> David Vincent wrote:
> Albert Charron wrote:
>
>>>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I want to put a desktop Ubuntu LiveCD-Rom onto a USB memory
>>>>> stick. Learned that UNetbootin was a package that will do the trick.
>>>>> So about 3 weeks ago I d/l this package. When I ran it this morning,
>>>>> after making it an exicutable file, it complained of not finding
>>>>> mtools and p7zip so I used apt-get install and loaded both packages.
>>>>> They loaded just fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then put a 1 GB stick in the computer and ran UNetbootin from
>>>>> a Termainal. Since I have a .iso file for Hardy on my computer I used
>>>>> that and in just a few minutes I have the whole thing on the stick. It
>>>>> boots fine.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> And again, what was the technical question???
>>>>
> Karl is like Grandpa Simpson.
>
> Often nonsensical, usually rambling, occasionally he gets it right.
>
> One trick of his is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the
> time he caught the ferry to Shelbyville. He needed a new heel for his
> shoe. So he decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called
> Shelbyville in those days. So he tied an onion to his belt. Which was
> the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in
> those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees
> for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... oh yeah. The important
> thing was that he had an onion tied to his belt, which was the style at
> the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only
> thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
>
> -d
>>
> And you are a rude and total ass. You assume if I ask no question
> the email is worthless. To you I ask? Are you so smart the use of a USB
> memory stick to load Ubuntu is trivial?
Karl, everything in its place! Others have told you put it in a blog
yet you care not to listen. So suffer the slings and arrows.
> Also your PGP thing is wrong.
Pot meet kettle :
gpg command line and output:,/usr/bin/gpg --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty
--status-fd 2 -d,gpg: invalid armor header: >\n,gpg: invalid armor header: >\n
Now I may just have something wrong on my end but this is what Thunderbird
tells me.
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