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  1. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu and other distros slow or wont boot on Usb drive larger than 4gb

    I wanted to say THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for all the help you people have given me. So glad there still is a thing called freedom, and generosity, and its called Linux :) I will mark...
  2. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu and other distros slow or wont boot on Usb drive larger than 4gb

    Well I just purchased a 32g Sandisk from wally world. and 1...2...3... I did a full install on it and it works perfectly. SOOO the Kingston 16G and the PNY 16G must have sucked !! Unity is...
  3. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu and other distros slow or wont boot on Usb drive larger than 4gb

    Hi all !!! Been busy so have not had time to fuss with this BUT !!!! I installed 12.04 LTS on my sandisk 4 gig with persistantce and it works flawlessly !!??!!

    So.... The only thing I can...
  4. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu and other distros slow or wont boot on Usb drive larger than 4gb

    Everything works great on my Sandisk 4gb, and the Kingston 16gb and PNY 16gb just pooped out. I'm definitely going to look at the link and go for a 3.0 :)

    I will experiment with a full install on...
  5. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu and other distros slow or wont boot on Usb drive larger than 4gb

    Hi OldFred :) I remember I watched a youtube vid doing a full install and formatting to ext4 and followed it closely. It ran real slow (ubuntu 12.04) I am going to sift through all your helpful...
  6. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu and other distros slow or wont boot on Usb drive larger than 4gb

    Hi sudodus, I did not know USB 3 drive would be faster even in a USB 2 port. That is GREAT info to know. I will experiment and try ubuntu live. Since it actually runs pretty good on live cd, I...
  7. [all variants] Re: Ubuntu and other distros slow or wont boot on Usb drive larger than 4gb

    Hi Knownsyntax, I make sure it is formatted to fat 32, tried the fast format in windows, and did a long format that fixes bad sectors, and it still is extremely slow. Is yours running fast as a live...
  8. [all variants] Ubuntu and other distros slow or wont boot on Usb drive larger than 4gb

    Hi, I have been trying several Ubuntu based distros on a Usb with persistent. I tried Ubuntu 12.04 on 16gb Kingston, and it was slow as molasses. I tried Bodhi, and it wouldn't boot or it would be...
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