[xubuntu-users] xubuntu on thumbdrive: instructions don't work

[David Duckslammer]

Grumble growl snarl.  I went out, found myself a wired connection,
downloaded and installed the missing usb-creator, created a bootable
flash drive.  It boots, it runs.  It doesn't seem to recognize the
wifi adapter, but I am at a place where there is only one access point
and it is private.

However the persistence feature doesn't work.  I modified
syslinux/text.cfg per the instructions on Vincent's page and that
still didn't work.  However linux was reporting i/o errors on
shutdown.  So I bought a new thumbdrive, reinstalled, modified
text.cfg - no more i/o errors on shutdown but still no persistence.
Got to have persistence.  There are drivers and apps I can't use this
system without and no way to save them otherwise.

What do I try next?

> Ok, I downloaded the ISO, made and booted on the live CD.  The usb-creator
> app is not part of the live CD though it surely seems as if it should be.  I
> can't download and install it it because I'm running on a CD.  I refuse to
> overwrite my laptop harddisk until I know for sure ubuntu actually works
> with all my hardware.
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> Your instructions are great, but they do not apply to someone who just wants
> to give ubuntu a test drive without loading the entire system on his
> harddisk - which completely defeats the pupose of installing it on a
> thumbdrive.
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> What I really need to test is the wifi.  Under the other install referenced
> previously, linux saw my wifi adapter but I couldn't figure out how to
> configure it.  Under the live CD, it doesn't even see the adapter.  I don't
> know what will happen if I install ubuntu on the harddisk.  Being as wifi is
> my only connection to the internet, I am hesitant to do the install without
> being sure.  This is why I want to test it out with a persistent install on
> a thumbdrive.  Catch-22!
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