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Goal:  Get an OS on a pen drive which will boot on most computers allowing me portable access to all my files.   
 
Goal:  Get an OS on a pen drive which will boot on most computers allowing me portable access to all my files.   
  
== [http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ ]pendrivelinux.com==
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==pendrivelinux.com [http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ ]==
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First lets try out pendrivelinux.com
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I download their img file
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== Ubunto 7.10 ==
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Had trouble recognizing USB drive with outher distributions so used Ubunto Live CD distro
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Steps:
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#Saw USB drive already mounted when booting up live CD
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#double clicked and noticed it was /dev/sdb1
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#became super user : sudo su
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#umount/dev/sdb1
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#fdisk /dev/sdb1
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# hit p
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saw several partisition /dev/sdb1px
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# mkfs.vfat warning 
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filesystem will be misinterpreted as 12 bit FAT without mount option "fat=16"

Latest revision as of 16:41, 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:

  1. Saw USB drive already mounted when booting up live CD
  2. double clicked and noticed it was /dev/sdb1
  3. became super user : sudo su
  4. umount/dev/sdb1
  5. fdisk /dev/sdb1
  6. hit p

saw several partisition /dev/sdb1px


  1. mkfs.vfat warning

filesystem will be misinterpreted as 12 bit FAT without mount option "fat=16"