Ubuntu Portable!

[BuzzKillington]

http://yatsite.blogspot.com/2008/09/run-ubuntu-inside-windows-without.html

Hope you have an extra flash drive laying around to carry this baby around. :)

[billygoat333]

this looks interesting... will check it out when i get my compy set up. +rep

[xmastree]

Interesting...

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f341/chrispollard/download.png
Whhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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[XcOM]

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2892/weeeeeegk2.png

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
8)8)

[xmastree]

Yeah, but wait until you try unzipping it onto your 1GB thumbdrive and find it's not big enough...

[BuzzKillington]

Yeah, but wait until you try unzipping it onto your 1GB thumbdrive and find it's not big enough...

who has 1gig flash drives nowadays? haha

[XcOM]

4 gig is the biggist i got, and my most used one in 128mb

[nevermind1534]

I have some 16GB ones. $10-$20 with rebates from newegg.

[XcOM]

my only quibbble is the IMG file ia only 1.7GB, and nothing can expand it,

Im working on it, i think i figured out a way to do it, will let you know the outcome

[TheGreatSatan]

It seems like they only sell 2GB and up these days

[XcOM]

i think i've done it, im just transfuring a 23GB image over the wireless, will try it tomorrow and let you know the results

bugger that, it didnt work, i now have a 20gb drive, but can only use 1.8gb of it, trying something else.

[LiTHiUM0XiD3]

It seems like they only sell 2GB and up these days

they wouldnt want the other GB do get lonely would they?

[XcOM]

they wouldnt want the other GB do get lonely would they?

+Rep for being so corney

[haha49]

Im useing vista 64 bit and I cant seem to get it to run at all

[XcOM]

prob because despite what people say, it is loading an emulator, and as such it prob dosent like vista x64

[luciusad2004]

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/2892/weeeeeegk2.png

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
8)8)

: ( uncool.

Its lookin to take me... just under two hours and i've already got 48 MB downloaded. I'm only getting around 50-60 KB/sec though. I don't know why the download is so slow. Shouldn't DSL be faster than this?

You guys are like the cool guys that race by me on the freeway like I'm not even moving.

[Xpirate]

It took a horrendous amount of time to download it. It's not that impressive once you get it, but it will probably get better with time.

[luciusad2004]

yeah, I opened it and didn't do anything w/ it other than test that it works. It was just Ubuntu under XP, but slow. I probably won't use it much unless i want to test something out in Linux land or play around in command line. The two apps i used most under Ubuntu, Firefox and Pidgeon, are both on windows anyway.

[xRyokenx]

I was wondering if they had a portable version of Ubuntu... I'll have to download it in a few months after it's been worked on some more.

[XcOM]

TBH, its not all that good, you can't install much, very limited drive space, slow, if you really need linux but don't want to partition your machines drive, use wither WUBI or VM,

Speaking of which, YAY, im posting this through Arch Linux on a virtual machine, took me two days sofar to get it working, but by got was it worth it, its just want i want from a linux distro, leave out what i don't want, and only add what i need,

Just installed XFCE4, currently installing open office, the only down side sofar is theres no GUI for pacman, im gonna look for one though, im sure someone has made one

[luciusad2004]

TBH, its not all that good, you can't install much, very limited drive space, slow, if you really need linux but don't want to partition your machines drive, use wither WUBI or VM,

Speaking of which, YAY, im posting this through Arch Linux on a virtual machine, took me two days sofar to get it working, but by got was it worth it, its just want i want from a linux distro, leave out what i don't want, and only add what i need,

Just installed XFCE4, currently installing open office, the only down side sofar is theres no GUI for pacman, im gonna look for one though, im sure someone has made one

Thats the conlusion i came to. If i really wanted a portable version of linux i would carry a live distrobution around on either a CD or flashdrive / external HDD. I really don't see the use for this.

[PartyLikeARockstar]

Sadly, I have to chip in here. Ubuntu's slow enough as is...I can only imagine that it would run poorly on a flash key, not to mention using it for an OS drive can kill it early from all the reads/writes.