On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday 12 December 2008 17:14:35 Frank Murphy wrote: >> Anne Wilson wrote: >> > Much has been said about the ability for a linux distro to be carried >> > around on a usb stick, making any computer into your familiar desktop. >> > Does anyone actually do this? >> >> I have F9 on a 4gb usb stick. (not-live installed to) >> As long as the Box is usb-bootable there's no problem so far. >> Have used it at school and home. >> > My F9 was a live install - I'll not do it that way again, as it introduces > complications better avoided, IMO. However, watching F9 attempt to run I saw > some very long pauses as before, and maybe some clue as to the problem. I saw > that it said it was running an eeepc kernel. Maybe both F9 and Mandriva were > set up with kernels specific to the eeepc? > > F9 did actually manage to bring up a desktop eventually, so I thought I would > try updating, to get a newer kernel. It ran into the problem of the repos and > signatures being changed. No matter. I'll attach a usb drive and do a clean > install when I have time. Maybe I'll even try installing onto the stick from > this laptop, to see whether that can handle the change in hardware. > > Hmmm.... > > Anne I have only tried this with F10 KDE, and the experience has been nothing short of amazing. I did have some file corruption at one point which prompted me to reimage it. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
