Flash Version

I am thinking in the future of doing a USB stick flash version of PhoenixOS if there is interest in it. This will be in the FUTURE, as I want to get the other versions out first. Let me know what you all think.

Ray

This would be great for the Netbooks since they don't come with a internal DVD/CDROM drive!

Bob

I know many people that use only flash or CD based distros and nothing else.

JPisini wrote:I know many people that use only flash or CD based distros and nothing else.

Ubuntu and Mint both have a usb stick writer utility for creating a bootable USB Stick drive.

Bob

I know many people that use only flash or CD based distros and nothing else.

It will help those seniors who periodically browse the porn sites...

...Seriously, it can help portray LINUX to M/S diehards, and other Windows users....

JN

Ubuntu and Mint both have a usb stick writer utility for creating a bootable USB Stick drive.

Unetbootin is the utility and it works with many versions of Linux. I used it with my Asus Eeepc 900, which has only a 4 gb ssd drive. I've successfully installed Easy Peasy, eeebuntu, and Puppy with it (one at a time!). Actually, I'm now running Puppy from an SD card.

I hope to try PhoenixOS on it.

Ken
Linux Internationals

I was very interested in being able to run Linux from a USB pendrive but lost a lot of that interest when I ran into problems with GRUB after having booted into the pendrive and when re-booting to the hard drive again.

I have decided that the only way to boot from a USB removable device is to start with a CD that will load the necessary drivers and then look for the bootable device and load the rest of the file-system from there. That way there is no messing with the normal boot order and no legacy problems after use. I would hate to demonstrate a lovely Linux to somebody and then leave them with a mess to clean up next time they booted their system. It also gets over the problem of some older BIOS that don't support booting from a USB device any way.

So, my recommendation is, if you are going to build an installable version for USB devices, include the necessary ISO to burn to a bootable CD to complement that also. There is plenty of help for that but my tired old brain finds it tedious and almost impossible to follow.

e.g. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromUSB

Paul

I would be very interested in a flash drive version!

I always use flash for my installs. Your Karmic and Lucid builds go on flash nicely.

LinuXFroG wrote:I always use flash for my installs. Your Karmic and Lucid builds go on flash nicely.

That was supposed to be the surprise hehehehe, you let the cat out of the bag.

Combo releases that work on both disk and usb; its not perfected but pretty darn close.

Ray

Well, my attempts to burn PhoenixOS - Karmic and Lucid to disk failed. I'd say it's perfected. So I resorted to the flash drive. Which I use 99.99% of the time. Sorry, this old fart don't think too well. But ya never told me NOT to let the "cat" out!

Hobz wrote:I would be very interested in a flash drive version!

HEY mi amigo...

GLAD to see ya stop on by...

Harvey

LinuXFroG wrote:Well, my attempts to burn PhoenixOS - Karmic and Lucid to disk failed. I'd say it's perfected. So I resorted to the flash drive. Which I use 99.99% of the time. Sorry, this old fart don't think too well. But ya never told me NOT to let the "cat" out!

Go ahead and make the announcement!

Ray

hqlinux wrote:

Hobz wrote:I would be very interested in a flash drive version!

HEY mi amigo...

GLAD to see ya stop on by...

Harvey

You know me Harvey, always late but I get there eventually! Nice ot see a lot of old names.

LinuXFroG wrote:Well, my attempts to burn PhoenixOS - Karmic and Lucid to disk failed. I'd say it's perfected. So I resorted to the flash drive. Which I use 99.99% of the time. Sorry, this old fart don't think too well. But ya never told me NOT to let the "cat" out!

Enlighten us!

I used the USB Startup disk creator that's built into Ubuntu and it works a treat. UNetBootin might work also, but have not tried.