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First lets try out pendrivelinux.com | First lets try out pendrivelinux.com | ||
| + | I download their img file | ||
| − | + | == Ubunto 7.10 == | |
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| + | Had trouble recognizing USB drive with outher distributions so used Ubunto Live CD distro | ||
| + | |||
| + | Steps: | ||
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| + | #Saw USB drive already mounted when booting up live CD | ||
| + | #double clicked and noticed it was /dev/sdb1 | ||
| + | #became super user : sudo su | ||
| + | #umount/dev/sdb1 | ||
| + | #fdisk /dev/sdb1 | ||
| + | # hit p | ||
Revision as of 16:25, 10 October 2007
Installing Linux on a 16 Mb Pen Drive
Goal: Get an OS on a pen drive which will boot on most computers allowing me portable access to all my files.
pendrivelinux.com [1]
First lets try out pendrivelinux.com I download their img file
Ubunto 7.10
Had trouble recognizing USB drive with outher distributions so used Ubunto Live CD distro
Steps:
- Saw USB drive already mounted when booting up live CD
- double clicked and noticed it was /dev/sdb1
- became super user : sudo su
- umount/dev/sdb1
- fdisk /dev/sdb1
- hit p