Cool. I tried to do it to my iPod earlier, but my iPod has a weird block size (2048 as opposed to 512). Not a huge deal, but it causes all libparted-based installers, including that of Ubuntu & co. to choke. On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen < kristian.hermansen@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Patrick C > wrote: > > I was wondering if anyone here had any experience with installing > > Linux-based OSs to USB. A friend of mine is attempting it, but > > understandably struggling (he's not very much a Linux guy, at least not > yet) > > with Ubuntu. As far as I can tell, there's no real standard way of doing > it > > (it varies across distribution, and most distributions don't have some > > standard for installing to external HDD/USB). I'm in the middle of > setting > > one up right now, but it just duplicates the functionality of a > (remastered) > > (X)ubuntu LiveCD, and I'd prefer something persistent. If I'm not > satisfied > > with this, I'll just try to rig something up on my own, but I was > wondering > > if you folks had any advice/wisdom for me, first. > > I've done it and it works great. Just set your installation > destination to the USB media, and that's it! It's just like a disk... > -- > Kristian Erik Hermansen > -- > "It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an > intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing > gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and > difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious > watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or > failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to > Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878 > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Amarok: Rediscover your music. -- http://amarok.kde.org Sabayon Linux: Cutting Gentoo's edge. -- http://www.sabayonlinux.org