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    #16
    Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

    Death Kitten, so this is a neat project you can look forward to; and to get started, 2 GB is plenty--800 MB for Kubuntu and about 1+ gig for the persistent "casper-rw" partition.
    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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      #17
      Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

      I'm a firm believer in buying the biggest amount of memory/storage one can afford, so I'll try to get my hands on something bigger than 2GB, since that seems to be the starting point for flash memory these days. If this beastie is going to turn into my computer away from home (how I intend it, as I'll have music, writing, website, etc in that home directory) it's better for me to start with the bigger drive size anyways.
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        #18
        Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

        Kubuntu HH 8.04 on Live Persistent Flash Drive

        >> This post is in progress <<
        =>> See the following post for some final words on this <<=


        *** This topic has been changed/incorporated into another topic by the author ***

        *** SEE the first post of this thread (above) for complete Table of Contents ***
        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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          #19
          Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

          Kubuntu HH 8.04 on Live Persistence Flash Drive


          *** This topic has been moved by the author ***

          *** SEE the first post of this thread (above) for complete Table of Contents ***
          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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            #20
            Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

            Thanks Mike for including HH live. I only keep one live version of Kubuntu at any one time and i only have HH live now. Will try it and post the results.
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              #21
              Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

              Good--Let us know.
              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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                #22
                Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                Very nice piece of work, Mike! Thanks!
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                  #23
                  Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                  Right, I finally got round to giving it a go and it worked as prescribed for 8.04. No bugs, no nothing (the last bit is true, unfortunately: the computer I am trying to install it on gives me the black screen of death )

                  However, the howto is excellent stuff - many thanks Qqmike!
                  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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                    #24
                    Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                    Thanks for your feedback, toad. Good to hear from you.
                    So, are you saying you did NOT get the bug mentioned in my fixer post above? This one:

                    Bug #219192, first reported on 2008-04-18 by Kenneth Mokkelbost
                    [hardy] livecd: keyword "persistent" results in busybox and (initramfs)

                    Or, you got it, but you fixed it?
                    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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                      #25
                      Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                      Sorry - been away installing Kubuntu 8.04 on two machines for mates of mine incl. business customisation (and one of them had a faulty dvd drive, hence the necessity for your live stick solution ).

                      I experienced no bugs whatsoever - on the second machine I had the dreaded black screen of death on initial boot of the usb stick. However, this was easily dealt with by booting into safe graphics mode using F4.

                      Otherwise fantastic stuff
                      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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                        #26
                        Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                        Great! Good news is always good to hear.

                        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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                          #27
                          Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                          I've been reading this thread with interest, but did not have an extra flash drive I could devote to this. But I did have an old Maxtor 20GB IDE drive I wasn't using, and I also have on of these:
                          http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cat=HDD

                          So, I think, why wouldn't this work?

                          So I followed the instructions for the persistent install, and it works great. Of course I could make my partitions larger because I have plenty of room.

                          Now I have a bootable USB hard drive I can use to demo Kubuntu. Probably doesn't run as fast as a flash drive, but it works fine.

                          Biggest problem I had was figuring out how to get my bios to boot from this drive first.
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                            #28
                            Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                            That's an interesting and unexpected application of this!
                            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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                              #29
                              Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                              linuxuser, glad you got it and are having some fun with it

                              On the re-booting from the bootable flash drive ...
                              General principle:
                              When your PC boot from a drive (ANY drive—hard drive, external USB drive, flash drive), THAT drive is seen by BIOS & GRUB as drive hd0 * during that booting session *. (and btw, GRUB sees the drives the same way BIOS sees them.)
                              => If you have a menu.lst on that flash drive, it should refer to any OS on it as being on device hd0 (and so on partition (hd0,y) for some y -- you can have more than one bootable OS or program (like GParted) on a flash drive, and so y may be 0, 1, 2, etc.).

                              On fun ideas, it's fairly basic stuff, but here's another one I did here, messing around with flash drives:
                              How To Make GRUB Thumb Drive
                              http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081748.0
                              and all the many posts I've added below the main post.
                              Puppy has done a lot with flash drives—see the Puppy links under my Puppy how-to post, Reply #9 ( ? ).

                              => So, for example, if you have the energy, you could build a flash drive containing, say, Kubuntu, SGD, GParted Live, Puppy, Ubuntu, making K/ &/or Ubuntu persistent (or not), a data FAT32 partition, and so on.


                              Thanks for your nice comments.
                              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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                                #30
                                Re: Build a LIVE Kubuntu Flash Drive, How-To

                                HI Mike,
                                I was fooling around with putting Kubuntu Intrepid RC on my new usb 16GB.

                                This how-to was a great help.

                                Now I have a few questions:
                                Setting up grub:
                                From within the kubuntu partition on the usb stick I did:
                                Code:
                                sudo grub
                                then
                                grub> root (hd0,1)

                                this goes fine

                                and
                                grub> setup (hd0,0)

                                this gives me:
                                grub> setup (hd0)

                                Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

                                grub>
                                Now for the bios:
                                Pheonix award gives me:
                                USB-FDD (don't know what that is and doesn't work anyway)
                                USB CD-Rom (doesn't work)
                                USB HDD (this locks the boot up so I have to hard reboot)


                                Everything else I did according to post 7 from this how to edited your menu.lst to say Kubuntu 8.10 but left the rest unchanged.

                                I know that ubuntu Intrepid is coming with a automatic install to USB feature.

                                Tried that with Kubuntu Intrepid daily Live but it it worked to a point but not completely.
                                I suppose because Kubuntu isn't set up for that yet.

                                Any Ideas?
                                HP Pavilion dv6 core i7 (Main)
                                4 GB Ram
                                Kubuntu 18.10
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