Installation on USB stick

[sno]

I was hoping for some support in the FAQ or wiki regarding my question. But nothing there so I like the public to hear and hopefully shed light on my so straightforward question, 'how do I install linuxmce on a usb stick' ??

For this this time and age usb stick support should almost be mandatory but a nice workaround will do as well, hoping for a solution..

Cheers sno.

[totallymaxed]

I was hoping for some support in the FAQ or wiki regarding my question. But nothing there so I like the public to hear and hopefully shed light on my so straightforward question, 'how do I install linuxmce on a usb stick' ??

For this this time and age usb stick support should almost be mandatory but a nice workaround will do as well, hoping for a solution..

Cheers sno.

Let me see...

- Use a Motherboard/Bios that will boot from Flash drives

- Use the Kubuntu 0710 Live CD to install Kubuntu to the USB drive

- Then use the LinuxMCE 0710 CD installer to install LinuxMCE to the USB drive

- Thats it as far as i can see ;-)

All the best

Andrew

[Zaerc]

You're probably going to need a 32G stick though.

[royw]

You might want to move the /var/log to a tmpfs so your stick has a chance of lasting a while.  LMCE is very chatty in the logs...

Have fun,
Roy

[sno]

Let me see...

- Use a Motherboard/Bios that will boot from Flash drives

- Use the Kubuntu 0710 Live CD to install Kubuntu to the USB drive

- Then use the LinuxMCE 0710 CD installer to install LinuxMCE to the USB drive

- Thats it as far as i can see ;-)

All the best

Andrew

Thx very mutch, i will try it in the next days or so.
At my disposal i have a 4gb usb stick, seems to me 32gb is bit overkill, so why that remark?
moving the logfiles to a tmpfs is a very good idea, its all about the changing the mountpoints in the fstab right? (never realy tryed it)

[royw]

I haven't tried it on a usb stick, but yes, adding it to fstab should be all that is required.  Something like:

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none                   /var/log        tmpfs   size=1000M,nr_inodes=1M 0 0
Adjust the size and nr_inodes for your system (these numbers were from my workstation, so are probably a little large).

HTH,
Roy