AWESOME! (Compugeeking ahead!)
2008-Dec-11, Thursday 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ssurgulI just did a quick test and found the following.
Ubuntu since Hard Heron (8.04) has had the option of creating a bootable USB drive within the OS for any bootable CD/DVD/floppy image. Now, using that with an Ubuntu install image on a USB drive that's larger than 1GB allows you to set aside any portion of the remaining space for extra documents and whatnot. Meaning that the drive has a bootable OS that allows for changes. This is awesome unto itself, sure. But I also discovered that the 'Generic USB SD Card reader' toy I can use for the microSD cards for my phone also handles the bootability properly.
Now to verify that documents are indeed saved, and to check to see whether, on the incredibly off chance, the system will actually retain proper updates to itself as well, as in programs added and libraries updated and the like.
Ubuntu since Hard Heron (8.04) has had the option of creating a bootable USB drive within the OS for any bootable CD/DVD/floppy image. Now, using that with an Ubuntu install image on a USB drive that's larger than 1GB allows you to set aside any portion of the remaining space for extra documents and whatnot. Meaning that the drive has a bootable OS that allows for changes. This is awesome unto itself, sure. But I also discovered that the 'Generic USB SD Card reader' toy I can use for the microSD cards for my phone also handles the bootability properly.
Now to verify that documents are indeed saved, and to check to see whether, on the incredibly off chance, the system will actually retain proper updates to itself as well, as in programs added and libraries updated and the like.