Not that this is a problem, but it's something I noticed.
When I put a thumb drive in on a windoze pc the led on the drive comes on. When I unmount it the led goes out.
Handy to know when the drive is completely unmounted.
When I unmount in Ubuntu the led stays on.
I am trying to setup an older PC (Yes it can boot to USB) with Ubuntu and have only the /boot partition on a USB Thumb drive. Not running the operation system from the USB but to have the OS installed on the internal HDD and only the /boot on the USB Thumb drive, I do not want to run the operating system from the USB Thumb drive.
What i would like to do is.
The following quote is the sad, sad story of a thumb drive with the partition table nuked, as told by a friend of mine:
Quote:
Data was recovered from an XP system by booting with a BartPC CD
and copying onto a USB thumb drive. Nothing unusual.
System was rebooted into the XP install CD.
I downloade Ubuntu to a thumb drive and can boot up without a problem on the thumb drive.
I have a dell XPS that got hit with a virus and it was too painful to remove it. I wiped the hard drive clean using the XP install disc (NTSF). When I tried to install and run windows it said that the drive was not available. I gave up at this point and got out my thumb drive and booted up in Ubuntu.
Hello,
I'd like to install Ubuntu on a flash drive, however I'm unsure which filesystem to use.
Instructions on the web almost universally say to use ext2, but that seems like poor advice to me, as those drives generally have no wear leveling and ext2 will cause frequent writes to a few areas on the drive.
I understand that some file systems optimized for flash storage such as YAFFS2, JFFS2 and
I have a CentOS 5 system with KDE3 where three different people need to use thumb drives. It's a multi-user system, meaning that a thumb drive mounted by user A also needs to be rw-accessible ... [by majun]
On ubuntu 9.04 desktop I'm trying to use a Kingston "Data Traveler" 4GB thumb drive to store data. I'm not trying to boot from it (yet). I was planning to format it with a ext2 filesystem but fdisk doesn't seem to see it. Here's what I get:
sudo fdisk /dev/sdd
Unable to open /dev/sdd
I am running 10.10 on an older gateway pc and it works ok for me. One problem that I have had to work around is on my hardware I cannot use any newer version of ubuntu and have everything work so I stay with 10.10.
I did a network install (from mini.iso) of 12.04 onto a thumb drive while that drive was attached to a desktop machine that had only an ethernet connection. It succeeded. I then used the thumb drive to boot a netbook that has both ethernet and wifi, and neither comes up, nor is there any network configuration widget available.
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