[GRLUG] old laptop utilization

[Adam M. Erickson]

For a Ubuntu bootable thumbdrive that can save changes, google :
"persistent, liveCD, Ubuntu".

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14912/create-a-persistent-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

I used pendrivelinux.com about 5 years ago with no problems. You can
get in a little of trouble with one of these... So stay ethical.

also

In Ubuntu there is an option to do the same
Systems/Administration/Startup Disk Creator


On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I remember seeing this come across my blog reading recently.  PLOP
> allegedly helps you use usb boot media for devices that typically have
> trouble booting usb.
>
> http://www.plop.at/en/ploplinux.html
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 12:02 -0500, Edward Crawford wrote:
> >
> >> I have an old thinkpad with 512 of memory. I'd like to create a
> >> bootable Ubuntu thumb drive to run it & to have on hand for other
> >> projects. Does anyone have any links to instructions on creating a
> >> bootable thumb drive?
> >
> > dd if=/dev/image.iso of=/dev/your-thumb-drive
> >
> >
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