Ubuntu on pendrive

Thu Dec 22 00:06:47 UTC 2011

What is the most easy way to put ubuntu on a pendrive? Preferably withtout leaving windows

Robert
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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Additional function keys via PuTTY (Jamie Paul Griffin)
   2. Error starting updated Ubuntu servers (Jacob Mansfield)
   3. Re: [Lubuntu] How much disk space does Lubuntu install need.
      (Rigved Rakshit)
   4. Re: behaviour after cloning a disk (Koh Choon Lin)
   5. Application to show media type in CD/DVD drive (Chris Green)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:05:52 +0000
From: Jamie Paul Griffin <jamie at kontrol.kode5.net>
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Subject: Re: Additional function keys via PuTTY
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:10:03AM +0100, PleegWat wrote:

> On 12/21/2011 02:33 PM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> > 
> > Forgive me, I might have completely misunderstood, but can't this
> > sort of thing be defined from within the window manager
> > configuration?
> > 
> 
> If you're logging onto the server with PuTTY (via SSH) the window
> manager doesn't come into it.

I'll just shut-up then :-)

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Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:27:44 +0000
From: Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com>
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Subject: Error starting updated Ubuntu servers
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Hi all,
After applying some updates onto a Ubuntu web server, I rebooted it.
However it will no longer start, and generates this error in XenCenter:

22/12/2011 09:57:45 Error: Starting VM 'Web Server' - Using <class 'grub.GrubConf.Grub2ConfigFile'>; to parse /boot/grub/grub.cfg - WARNING:root:Unknown directive load_video - WARNING:root:Unknown directive terminal_output - Traceback (most recent call last): - File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 746, in ? - raise RuntimeError, "Unable to find partition containing kernel"; - RuntimeError: Unable to find partition containingkernel

This server is mission-critical, so we need it back as soon as possible.
Any ideas guys?
thanks for the help,

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Jacob Mansfield,
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jacob at bluesapphiremedia.co.uk

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:15:29 +0530
From: Rigved Rakshit <r.phate at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Lubuntu] How much disk space does Lubuntu install need.
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>
> > The other option is to use UNetbootin to install it to the hard-drive as
> a live CD with persistent storage.  The easiest way to do this is stick the
> 2GB drive in another machine and run UNetbootin.  Change Type from USB
> Drive to Hard Disk and select the drive from the next box.  You may have to
> format the 2GB drive to FAT before you start, I can't remember.  It may be
> best to ignore my instructions, it is reasonably obvious once UNetbootin is
> running.
>
> I have just tried to install from the live CD and it says I need 4.1GB
> and won't allow me to carry on.

The suggested method was to install using a method know as LiveUSB:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent. Unetbootin is available
in Ubuntu, so the Windows method mentioned on the page will work as well.

You have made the mistake of installing using the normal method of
installing on a Hard disk. This will not work as it does require at least 4
GB to give you a working install that can be easily updated at a later time.

Best Regards,
Rigved Rakshit
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:49:02 +0800
From: Koh Choon Lin <2choonlin at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: behaviour after cloning a disk
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Hi

> I have a question about the behaviour of a cloned disk.
> I want to copy a20GB disk to a partition on a much larger disk (1TB) of
> 20GB. The disk is bootable with 2 primary partitions (1=ntfs, 1=ext3) and an
> extendedn partition with 5 logical partitions (with different formats).
> If I copy that disk with "dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdd8 bs=1024" will all be
> preserved i.e. are all partitions the same as in the old disk and is the
> disk bootable ( and can grub find the bootable partitions automagically?).
> You can see I don't have much experience with this so I hope somebody with
> more experience can help me out.

I used to perform this for forensic purposes. This method only works
for cloning a sdb that is smaller than sdd8. The partition table will
be exactly the same and bootable. However, assuming sdd8 is 200 GiB,
it will be reduced to 20 GiB since the table is a clone of sdb. As
such, unless this is a short term arrangement, this way of cloning is
not recommended.

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Regards
Koh Choon Lin

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:57:31 +0000
From: Chris Green <cl at isbd.net>
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Subject: Application to show media type in CD/DVD drive
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What's a good application for showing what sort of disk has been put
into the CD/DVD drive?  

I currently have xfburn installed and that doesn't tell me anything about
the disk media.

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Chris Green

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