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    #76
    Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

    If you download a program from the Live CD, it exists only in RAM (and is "gone" after you end your Live Kubuntu session).

    If you are working from a Live persistent flash drive, and download a program, then, of course, it is stored on the flash drive (in the persistent casper-rw partition or folder), and it will be there when you use the flash drive again.
    An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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      #77
      Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

      Qqmike - not sure whether you've stumbled across this little gem before. Now I know how they do these things for magazines
      Once your problem is solved please mark the topic of the first post as SOLVED so others know and can benefit from your experience! / FAQ
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        #78
        Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

        Look pretty neat, and a good exercise for multi-booting w/GRUB on a CD/DVD. I read down to Step 1, scanned, and am going to study it later. As he says, it will--of course--go into a flash drive to. Good idea to put rescue OSs along with K/Ubuntu on a DVD.
        Thanks, toad!

        An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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          #79
          Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

          usb-creator now available for 8.04, too. https://launchpad.net/~evand/+archive
          Once your problem is solved please mark the topic of the first post as SOLVED so others know and can benefit from your experience! / FAQ
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            #80
            Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

            Thanks toad for keeping us up to date!
            I updated Reply #64 (usb-creator post) with your info.

            We're cookin' now, babes: This is beginning to look like a real helpful thread!
            An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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              #81
              Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

              Cool! I'll take a look at this myself. Thanks!
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                #82
                Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                Cool. I will naturally have to give the 8.04 a bash as well...as the 8.10 version was not so easy to sort as I am still on 8.04
                Running Kubuntu Karmic Koala&nbsp; with KDE 4.3 at home<br /><br />Kubuntu user 24342<br /><br />Running Dell Inspiron 530 Dual Core 3ghz<br /><br />and also running Kubuntu on a Lenovo thinkpad using a live pen drive<br /><br />Still no Microsoft here!
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                  #83
                  Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                  Takes a while to run. But it was successful, twice!

                  Yes , I was fiddling around with the initial and broke it . I know now not to try to force a complete Update. Doesn't do to well on a USB install of this nature.

                  The tool was very easy to understand and use. Basically point and click.
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                    #84
                    Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                    mine worked fine on 8:04 but the iso was faulty first time so I put 8:10 on it and even tried my old dapper iso! That did not work either. However the 8:10 works now fine and dandy on my work laptop although as I am in a network I cannot access the the internet via the proxy server which is a pain in the rear

                    It was avery very easy tool to use though and even worked with using an iso stored on my hard drive
                    Running Kubuntu Karmic Koala&nbsp; with KDE 4.3 at home<br /><br />Kubuntu user 24342<br /><br />Running Dell Inspiron 530 Dual Core 3ghz<br /><br />and also running Kubuntu on a Lenovo thinkpad using a live pen drive<br /><br />Still no Microsoft here!
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                      #85
                      Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                      I've manually created a 4Gb flash live-Kubuntu, and it's pretty cool. I've also come up with some (minor) additions to the instructions, AND I'm wanting to consolidate all the good information on this topic which this thread has produced. I'm thinking that it's time to make an entry in the Kubuntu wiki. My thought is to lay out the first draft there, then strongly encourage those who really know this material to go there and tune things up.

                      Why do this?

                      [1] Because what this has done for me is pretty impressive. I now can take my flash drive and my USB HD (which, of course, has lots of data files, doc and spreadsheet stuff, etc.) and plug it into to any available Intel platform. This is as close to perfect, I think (that Holy Grail someone mentioned a while back - uh, maybe on another related thread) as we can currently get. It's worth making a little splash about.
                      [2] Because the good information here is scattered like bird feed across six page of posts. That's a lot.

                      My question: Is my wiki entry notion a decent one, or is it a poor idea, for some reason not immediately apparent to me?

                      I'll send this out and wait a bit for response. If there is none much, then I'm headed for the wiki.
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                        #86
                        Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                        "...the good information here is scattered like bird feed across six page of posts."

                        Ha! I agree. And we have good info not organized all over the forum and especially the How-To's.

                        I'm not sure I fully get all the fine distinctions in the various modes of packaging tutorial information (wiki, how-to, FAQ, etc.), but I believe we should do whatever seems right and makes sense to generate and capture all the energy we have in this forum.

                        Tom, speaking just for myself, whatever looks right and makes sense to you, and that you feel would improve things or help people, go for it! Full bore. Give it a go. As for the material here, please feel free to use it/do with it, as you see fit, along with your ideas and packaging and presentation (at least speaking for any of my posts--I'm sure others will feel the same way, but I can't speak for them per se).

                        Innovation!

                        I'm all for it, Tom.

                        --Mike
                        An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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                          #87
                          Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                          Thanks. That's the license I needed/wanted.

                          I just did a quick cruise through the Forum(s), and then the wiki. The wiki is neglected, which is sad, 'cause it's actually more accessible then the Forums. The many pages on each main topic in the forums, plus all the ancillary material (chat, etc.) makes for non-optimal information retrieval. It's a very rich resource, but one needs a sieve, often.

                          I personally solve this problem by actively writing about 25 books on various topics central to my work and play, using a slick Ruby-based static website builder called Webby AND the extraordinary programmers' editor jEdit. The result is that what I learn over time is goes to build a coherent structure which I can access in the future (which in the near future means my new flash drive!).

                          I wanted to make an addition in my Kubuntu "book" concerning this flash drive business, just for my own reference, but then thought that others might benefit from the consolidation I will be producing. However...where to put it? The problem with forum posts is that they're owned. They are not community property. We cannot edit them. This does not make for economical information storage. Does not make me happy. So...it's off to the wiki, and I'll issue that promised invitation for revision - at some point soon (maybe tonight, maybe not)....

                          My deep thanks to the folks who've provided the core information I've been making such active use of in recent days.

                          t.
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                            #88
                            Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                            Yes, please do make a splash about the Holy Grail

                            [rant]
                            I personally don't like the existing kubuntu wiki - impossible to navigate, totally cluttered with useless stuff about thousands of apps (they just provide links) and I wrote the maintainer with a couple of questions and never got a reply :P
                            [/rant]

                            I started a thread about having our own wiki, but that is another story entirely...

                            Anyway, I'm glad you got it all sorted
                            Once your problem is solved please mark the topic of the first post as SOLVED so others know and can benefit from your experience! / FAQ
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                              #89
                              Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                              See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pu...uOnAFlashDrive for the product of my efforts. I'm working on it daily, and have much more to add, but the basic structure's there.

                              As for WHERE this stuff really should go...I grabbed the wiki as an idea simply because it seemed better than the forum. If there's a better idea, let me know.

                              t.
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                                #90
                                Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                                I'm short on time this week, but I scanned it very quickly. flash drives are UFDs = USB Flash Drive;
                                Also, the mounting iso to extract grub files is wrong -- there are no grub files there. I was thinking about a special build that includes SGD when I wrote that; If you try it, you'll see; so you'd have to use a Rescue iso that includes SGD or something like that. Not a big deal, unless someone tries it! I haven't had time to edit it here, but apparently no one has actually tried it but me.

                                Problem I see with your undertaking, Tom, is maintenance -- how will you have the time to stay up with it? Like the aggravating bug in 8.04 that required a rather delicate fix (or for Ubuntu ONLY, the downloaded gz patch). PITA, frankly. So little time to do so many things, difficult enough to stay up to snuff here at Kubuntu forums. A lot of folks will use it, though, including several guys at Ubuntu who have their own how-to's (Herman and his gang, Techno-Cpwboy, et al). Most of these how-to's are patched together from several sources, and the details get at times unnerving, with subtleties and long, drawn out threads. Not any big deal; it just consumes sometimes many days of time sorting stuff out.

                                The usb-creator thing is straightforward and the way most people will go. Maybe a complete and thorough walk-through of that would be useful (and hope HE keeps it maintained!).

                                Just an impression here this morning. And just thinking that your real work has only begun
                                An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
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