vas2
November 12th, 2016, 01:32 PM
Pretty sure this falls under Installation, so I hope I chose the right board to post this in.
I've been trying to set up a flash drive I can use to repair Windows any time I need and do other certain tasks when I need. My old USB 2.0 drive causes Windows Explorer to crash now if I try to load it, so I'm not sure if ext2fsd is broken or the drive is broken. I now have a 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive that I want to install Ubuntu onto, and I prefer LiveCD mode because it allows me to stick it into any computer and boot without having to worry about system configurations/hardware/whatever. I know it'll always boot because it'll load whatever it needs to in order to run. On top of that, I like LiveCD mode because I may accidentally damage Ubuntu/Linux because I don't know how to use it and frequently try to customize it and do things that may otherwise damage the OS, and in the case that I do that, all I have to do is format the persistence partition and boom, its like new again. A 3rd reason I like LiveCD, is it comes with all the software I want it to have, such as gparted and anything else I might need to perform repairs on pretty much any system I plug into, all right off the bat. When I used install once from a LiveCD version and installed to a flash drive, it came blank, empty, devoid of anything useful whatsoever. So I'm not sure if I want to install, or use LiveCD mode again.
An issue I'm facing right now thats preventing me from doing what I did before to make my USB, is the fact that I want to stick Ubuntu, at the end of the flash drive. Windows, being as crappy as it is and will always be (but still the only one I can truly game on comfortably and not google "how to" every 10 minutes) can only see the first partition of a flash drive. So I want the first 32GB of my flash drive, to be NTFS so I can transfer things back and forth between Ubuntu with great ease. The middle partition, will be the persistence while the end of the disk will have as little free space as possible, being absolutely nothing but Ubuntu. Thats the goal anyway.
This also needs to be UEFI compatible, as my current Ubuntu whatever it was, isn't and my laptop refuses to accept the flash drive at all when booting even though the flash drive is fine and functional. Just very very very slow. God, using Ubuntu on it was like waiting for something online to load on dialup. I'm not sure whats going to happen with my system soon, as it appears in cloning my 1TB HDD over to the 500GB SSD with some dirty tricks and hacks I had to do, may have damaged my file system so I'll have to format my SSD and start over from complete scratch. New UEFI partition, new partition tables and whatnot, all that jazz. UEFI still seems to be able to block the original flash drive from loading however, even with no hard disks in my laptop.
So, are there any ideas for what I can do? I prefer things that have a UI, because I can't remember command line things all that well and hate having to look them up constantly to do them. Thats why I use Windows, requires no command line almost anywhere while Linux based systems appear to still be heavily command line.
I've been trying to set up a flash drive I can use to repair Windows any time I need and do other certain tasks when I need. My old USB 2.0 drive causes Windows Explorer to crash now if I try to load it, so I'm not sure if ext2fsd is broken or the drive is broken. I now have a 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive that I want to install Ubuntu onto, and I prefer LiveCD mode because it allows me to stick it into any computer and boot without having to worry about system configurations/hardware/whatever. I know it'll always boot because it'll load whatever it needs to in order to run. On top of that, I like LiveCD mode because I may accidentally damage Ubuntu/Linux because I don't know how to use it and frequently try to customize it and do things that may otherwise damage the OS, and in the case that I do that, all I have to do is format the persistence partition and boom, its like new again. A 3rd reason I like LiveCD, is it comes with all the software I want it to have, such as gparted and anything else I might need to perform repairs on pretty much any system I plug into, all right off the bat. When I used install once from a LiveCD version and installed to a flash drive, it came blank, empty, devoid of anything useful whatsoever. So I'm not sure if I want to install, or use LiveCD mode again.
An issue I'm facing right now thats preventing me from doing what I did before to make my USB, is the fact that I want to stick Ubuntu, at the end of the flash drive. Windows, being as crappy as it is and will always be (but still the only one I can truly game on comfortably and not google "how to" every 10 minutes) can only see the first partition of a flash drive. So I want the first 32GB of my flash drive, to be NTFS so I can transfer things back and forth between Ubuntu with great ease. The middle partition, will be the persistence while the end of the disk will have as little free space as possible, being absolutely nothing but Ubuntu. Thats the goal anyway.
This also needs to be UEFI compatible, as my current Ubuntu whatever it was, isn't and my laptop refuses to accept the flash drive at all when booting even though the flash drive is fine and functional. Just very very very slow. God, using Ubuntu on it was like waiting for something online to load on dialup. I'm not sure whats going to happen with my system soon, as it appears in cloning my 1TB HDD over to the 500GB SSD with some dirty tricks and hacks I had to do, may have damaged my file system so I'll have to format my SSD and start over from complete scratch. New UEFI partition, new partition tables and whatnot, all that jazz. UEFI still seems to be able to block the original flash drive from loading however, even with no hard disks in my laptop.
So, are there any ideas for what I can do? I prefer things that have a UI, because I can't remember command line things all that well and hate having to look them up constantly to do them. Thats why I use Windows, requires no command line almost anywhere while Linux based systems appear to still be heavily command line.