Live CD and External HDD

aSc1@3

aSc1@3

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Hello, I have recentaly had a sudden idea: could'nt i get, oh, say, ubuntu 7.10, and, say, burn it to a cd to make a live cd and then carry all my files/setting on an external usb hdd(or even usb thumb drive),and then have a completly portable system?
 
Yup!! Thats what i do sometimes but mostly boot off my regular hdd. Get a 4gb flash drive and you can run everything off the flash drive and save your doc on it to inside the linux.
 
could i use a 1gb. usb flash drive to boot from, and have my files on an external hdd? Also, I'm currently using a emachines computer, and so far havn't been able to acsess bios. will this computer still boot from a live cd, as per the instructions on putting ubuntu on usb flash? And if so, can I burn it to a dvd instead of a cd, and will it still work? I do have a DVD burner.
 
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I just now restarted my computer, and i got into the bios! i now have it set to this boot order: usb, dvd, hdd, fdd, ethernet.
 
Well, i wan't dvd first so if i ever do use a live cd or get a new os, it would boot. Also, i have no idea why ethernet is an option, it probably means network storage, but i can't delete it, so i put it last.
 
Yeah it means network. Thats weird mine says network places or something like that. But yeah that should do. 1gb is kinda low for linux and docs on it. I think ubuntu takes like 700mb or so. Get this 4gb flash drive it should do fine. Cant go wrong for $15!! Whatever you do do not get over 4gb flash drive as most bios's wont support over 4gb for booting off usb. I think thats what limits it is the bios but maybe its just the os. Idk but whatever.

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