Want to use Live only with external USB persistant home.

[eldaria]

A friend of mine has a laptop with a dead Harddrive, at the moment there is not enough money to buy a new Harddrive, however he has a PalmOne Lifedrive PDA with 4GB drive, that can be used as a USB Harddrive also.

So my question.
Is it possible to boot the live cd, and then use the PDA to store modifications/updates/home drive etc?

Is this possible and if yes then how?

Regards,
Brian

[askrieger]

Re: Want to use Live only with external USB persistant home.

It's certainly possible with the Kubuntu Dapper Desktop CD. I don't know how well it works. there are some instructions for running the Ubuntu Live CD with a persistent home on the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDPersistence Because the instructions are all run from the command line, it doesn't matter whether you use KDE or Gnome. They are specific to a USB flash drive, but if the Palm device can masquerade as a USB hard drive it may work. The problem, if any, will occur in the step where you have to reformat the hard drive for Linux. That may kill the Palm.

[eldaria]

Re: Want to use Live only with external USB persistant home.

Hmm, well formatting is not an option, he uses the PDA.
Well I guess he will just have to move data to it manually.

Thanks.
Brian