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Re: Portable Ubuntu - Part 2

Daniel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:24:02 -0000

Looks like partition was failing due to using a USB cable that wasn't
supplying enough power. Grrr. While this application is mostly useless
to me if I have to occupy more than one USB port, for the time being,
I'm moving forward using both ports and the manufacturer supplied
cable.

(and, Disqus does support OpenID. It just does it TERRIBLY. Like,
really terrible. If they weren't so good at everything else, I'd
probably walk away just for this. I've mentioned it to them before.
They say they are fixing it.

Here's a link to the required procedure for logging in using OpenID
with Disqus...
http://revjim.net/2008/03/1...

Re: Portable Ubuntu - Part 2

Daniel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:19:02 -0000

I'm going to give this a shot today. Thank you.

Re: Portable Ubuntu - Part 2

Bryan — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:14:09 -0000

http://www.pendrivelinux.co...

Worked for me twice, your mileage may vary.

Re: Portable Ubuntu - Part 2

Matt — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:30:27 -0000

Pro Tip : Drop to one of the background consoles to see extra errors not reported by the UI.

J/k about the "pro tip" part, that just seemed funny at the time.

AFAIK, if you can boot off of another USB installed OS, then this should work. However, the fact that partitioning is failing is far more suspicious.

Other note, it could be a drive ordering thing, but I think Ubuntu has moved to using the drive UID instead of the old clumsy path names.

If you think it's just grub, you can install it manually via another linux install. There are directions on how to do this under something like "grub recovery". Grub, at the very least, would show you a nice prompt, since it's good like that.

BTW, I thought your site used le OpenID? Discuss doesn't seem to like me.

Re: Portable Ubuntu - Part 2

farrisgoldstein — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:49:48 -0000

I think the most likely problem is that you're doing something you're not telling us, and THAT'S causing it to break. ;)

Seriously, I have done this in general, with 7.10, on no less than 30 machines with at least 5 different cocktails of bios/usb/drive/chipset. The only time I've ever had a problem that couldn't be attributed to user error was when I actually had a bad drive.

Don't know what else to say. You're either still trying to do something the hard/"right"/wrong way, or you've just got some absolutely horrible luck.