I recently wanted to start playing with Linux again and decided to make a USB Boot Drive so I can take it anywhere and since nowadays there are USB drives big enough to handle that.
I used to have Suse Linux installed on my computer a few years ago and towards the end of my Linux interest I was looking into UBUNTU Linux. This time I decided to go that way but I really wanted to use KUBUNTU because I am more familiar with the KDE desktop environment rather than the GNOME desktop.
First I installed regular UBUNTU Linux onto my 8GB flash drive using the USB Flash drive creator within the UBUNTU operating system to test it out and it worked well and ran fine.
I then found these instruction from http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-kub...stall-windows/ to install KUBUNTU within Windows using the boot CD rather than doing it from the boot CD within Linux like I had with the regular UBUNTU. (Because from what I could find there isn't a USB installer in KUBUNTU like there is in UBUNTU)
It worked and I am able to boot from the USB drive into KUBUNTU but it is horribly slow, it seems to run at the same speed as it would if I had just booted it up from the CD. I would imagine that the KDE desktop demands a little more of your computer but this is a huge difference from when I had regular UBUNTU with the gnome desktop installed on the exact same drive (before I formatted it to WIN32 to install the new KUBUNTU linux of course).
My theory is that it just basically copied the CD over to my new drive without making an install.
So my questions are,
1. Would these instructions http://www.pendrivelinux.com/kubuntu...nstall-via-cd/ work better and solve my problem and make it run faster/better? if not or if there is a better way then what?
2. Is there a way to actually INSTALL it onto my flash drive? Because it gives me the same options at start up as the boot CD like "Start Persistantly" or whatever and "Install" and ETC. making me believe that it is not fully installed the way it was meant to be. Also is there any difference in "settings" and actually stored files or anything I should know or be worried about with that?
3. What exactly does "Persistent" mean? I know it is supposed to save my settings and what not, but to what level will it operate exactly as if it was installed on a computer? if not then what is the difference and how can I make this happen? Also at the bottom of the first link talks about the different size Casper-RW Loop file. What is this and how does it work? I have an 8gb flash drive and I want to use all of it and have it run as if it would installed regularly on a computer. Do I need to mess with any of that to make it happen? It it will work fine/do what I want it to do regardless and I don't need to worry about that just tell me that I don't need to mess with it lol because that would save a lot of time and there is no need for me to be interested in un-necessary knowledge at this point.
A good detailed and explanatory answer from someone who knows what they are talking about that can answer all of this would be very much appreciated. I don't want to get to far into this and have to start over because I didn't find something out or get one of these questions answered. I feel that if I can get a good answer to the questions listed here I will have a good idea of what is going on but if there is something you think would be beneficial, then please let me know. Thanks!
I used to have Suse Linux installed on my computer a few years ago and towards the end of my Linux interest I was looking into UBUNTU Linux. This time I decided to go that way but I really wanted to use KUBUNTU because I am more familiar with the KDE desktop environment rather than the GNOME desktop.
First I installed regular UBUNTU Linux onto my 8GB flash drive using the USB Flash drive creator within the UBUNTU operating system to test it out and it worked well and ran fine.
I then found these instruction from http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-kub...stall-windows/ to install KUBUNTU within Windows using the boot CD rather than doing it from the boot CD within Linux like I had with the regular UBUNTU. (Because from what I could find there isn't a USB installer in KUBUNTU like there is in UBUNTU)
It worked and I am able to boot from the USB drive into KUBUNTU but it is horribly slow, it seems to run at the same speed as it would if I had just booted it up from the CD. I would imagine that the KDE desktop demands a little more of your computer but this is a huge difference from when I had regular UBUNTU with the gnome desktop installed on the exact same drive (before I formatted it to WIN32 to install the new KUBUNTU linux of course).
My theory is that it just basically copied the CD over to my new drive without making an install.
So my questions are,
1. Would these instructions http://www.pendrivelinux.com/kubuntu...nstall-via-cd/ work better and solve my problem and make it run faster/better? if not or if there is a better way then what?
2. Is there a way to actually INSTALL it onto my flash drive? Because it gives me the same options at start up as the boot CD like "Start Persistantly" or whatever and "Install" and ETC. making me believe that it is not fully installed the way it was meant to be. Also is there any difference in "settings" and actually stored files or anything I should know or be worried about with that?
3. What exactly does "Persistent" mean? I know it is supposed to save my settings and what not, but to what level will it operate exactly as if it was installed on a computer? if not then what is the difference and how can I make this happen? Also at the bottom of the first link talks about the different size Casper-RW Loop file. What is this and how does it work? I have an 8gb flash drive and I want to use all of it and have it run as if it would installed regularly on a computer. Do I need to mess with any of that to make it happen? It it will work fine/do what I want it to do regardless and I don't need to worry about that just tell me that I don't need to mess with it lol because that would save a lot of time and there is no need for me to be interested in un-necessary knowledge at this point.
A good detailed and explanatory answer from someone who knows what they are talking about that can answer all of this would be very much appreciated. I don't want to get to far into this and have to start over because I didn't find something out or get one of these questions answered. I feel that if I can get a good answer to the questions listed here I will have a good idea of what is going on but if there is something you think would be beneficial, then please let me know. Thanks!
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