PDA

View Full Version : [ubuntu] 8.10 install on pendrive/usb stick fails



karhulitos
December 7th, 2008, 01:36 PM
Hello,

I need an opinion from more wise people.

I did an upgrade to 8.10 from 8.04 a month ago. I wasn't happy about shutdown problem and some nVidia things I experienced. I fell back to 8.04.

After a while I wanted a way to "check" if my problems had been resolved by installing 8.10 on a Kingston DataTraveler 4GB stick. First installation didn't find keyboard but I was able to find workaround for it. Then system updates broke apt-get so that I couldn't install anything anymore (doc-base complained of some newline in some file).
Then I thought to do another fresh 8.10 install to same usb stick. Install appeared to be a success. This time keyboard was correctly detected - I had high hopes - but then gnome-panel crashed every time I log in.
So two installs from same Ubuntu-CD to same usb stick but 2 different sets of problems.

Above led me to think if usb stick installs are any good at all?

pages like pendrivelinux makes me think there shouldn't be any caveats other than speed using usb stick install
my experiences lead me to think usb stick cannot be used like hdd


Can you share your experience? Should I drop the idea of usb stick install or continue with it?

best regards,
Timo

PS. this is a full blown install on usb stick, not the live-cd type of approach

Pumalite
December 7th, 2008, 02:23 PM
Take a look at this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789528&highlight=Herman

karhulitos
December 9th, 2008, 09:09 PM
Me go shopping a Kingston HyperX stick then. Cheers mate about that thread.

Pumalite
December 9th, 2008, 09:12 PM
I'm glad it worked for you! Good luck. Keep warm

karhulitos
December 12th, 2008, 02:29 PM
Couldn't find HyperX at my computer store but bought SanDisk Cruzer Contour 8GB and there was no problems at all installing 8.10 using ReiserFS.