Help for my mom part 2

[Stephen]

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 <nathan at paysonlinux.org> 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 <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Net-books are notorious for not having optical drives.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:43 PM,  <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> 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
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>> > To: Phoenix Linux Users
>> > ReplyTo: kfries6 at 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
>> >
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>> Stephen
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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