I think it was fedora 11 i ran into a tool to make the USB stick form livecd and it added a persistent storage area to the disk (if you had the space free) On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Nathan England wrote: > OpenSUSE Live discs can be dd'd to a USB flash drive. > dd if=/path/to/opensuse-KDE-live-blah.iso of=/dev/usbdevice bs=4MB > And it works very well and is very fast. I use it quite a bit for various > tasks. I wish it had a persistent feature to it so I could save things. It > is possible you can do the same type of thing with a UNR disc. I put UNR on > my wife's Lenovo netboot and she didn't care for it. I installed regular > Kubuntu instead and she likes that much better. > nathan > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Stephen wrote: >> >> Net-books are notorious for not having optical drives. >> >> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:43 PM,   wrote: >> > Why not send her a UNR live CD to try it out? She could try other live >> > cds as well until the next install fest to find just what she wants. >> > >> > Mark >> > ------Original Message------ >> > From: Kevin Fries >> > Sender: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To: Phoenix Linux Users >> > ReplyTo: kfries6@gmail.com >> > ReplyTo: Phoenix Linux Users >> > Subject: Help for my mom part 2 >> > Sent: Feb 21, 2010 3:10 PM >> > >> > OK, mom gave up on the desktop for now and let someone convince her into >> > buying a new HP netbook.  It came with Windows, and she iis already annoyed >> > with it after a week... Too funny!!! >> > >> > I know there is an Installfest later this month but she can't make that >> > one.  When is the one after that so we can find someone to help her get UNR >> > installed? >> > >> > Thx >> > Kevin >> > >> > Sent from my Nokia phone >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> > >> > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss