Installation/FromUSBStick

Installation/FromUSBStick The general procedure to install Ubuntu from a USB flash drive is: Acquire the correct Ubuntu installation files ('the ISO') Put Ubuntu onto your USB flash drive Configure your computer to boot from USB flash drive and boot from it Try Ubuntu or install it to your hard drive. Ubuntu can be installed from a USB flash drive. This may be necessary for netbooks and other computers without CD drives and is handy for others because a USB flash drive is so convenient. Also, you can configure Ubuntu on the USB flash drive to save changes you make, unlike a read-only CD-ROM drive. Booting from a USB flash drive created with this utility will behave just as if you had booted from the install CD. Note: This article uses the term "USB flash drive" instead of: USB stick, USB drive, and thumb drive. To create a USB installation disk, you will need: a 2 GB USB flash device/drive/stick. Notes about speed The most common USB ports and USB flash drives work according to the USB 2 standard. Conclusion Notes Note

How To Create An Internet Kiosk with Kubuntu | dimmeria I help run a medium-sized scientific conference annually. We have an internet cafe / registration room where our attendees may pay for the conference or just surf the web. We used to run WinXP with the hive cleanup tool and a lockdown utility probably created by a Microsoft intern. It worked fairly well. Then Windows released SteadyState, which we tried last year. SteadyState worked as advertised on my test machine, but failed spectacularly at the conference on 80% of the kiosk machines - I'm still not sure why. You probably want to read my new article on this topic. The following is how to create a relatively secure internet kiosk using Kubuntu. Update 2009-09-21: I can confirm this works in KDE3 and KDE4. The methodology for this should be to perfect the kiosk as much as possible on one machine (or a VM) first, then clone that machine to all your other computers, changing hostnames where appropriate. Step 1: Partitions Step 2: Boot from new Kiosk, install required packages

Linux Live for CD & USB PowerTop - optimiser l'autonomie de son portable (linux). | WebD Remastersys project Hardware/Detection - Ubuntu Wiki Summary Covers how we detect hardware, both when the system is running and how we ensure that at startup we capture potentially missed events. Should also cover how we make sure we don't process events before we can deal with them (ie. network card module built-in, but none of ifupdown in initramfs). Rationale Modern computers aren't off-the-shelf static entities with standard parts and design; instead they are a collection of different hardware targetted for different purposes. The 2.6 kernel manages much of the hard work of managing hot plug interfaces such as USB, Firewire and server PCI and exposes information about connected devices through both the /sys filesystem and by passing events to user-space known as "uevents". Tools Ubuntu comes with a bunch of commandline tools which might help you detect hardware which is not to be discovered by the Hardware Manager. Use cases Scope The scope of this specification is the correct receipts of events from the kernel and reaction to those events.

LiveCDCustomization You may wish to customise the Ubuntu Desktop LiveCd to: make your own Linux / Ubuntu distribution show off a particular application localise to a certain language remove software packages add software packages update software packages change system defaults (theme, icons, desktop background, panels, browser homepage, etc) The easiest way to create a custom LiveCD is to use Ubuntu Customization Kit. What follows is the manual way of accomplishing the same. This guide is for the Desktop LiveCd; there is another page referring to customisation of the Alternative Install Cd & the Server Install Cd. Also, there is a guide on how to create a LiveCd without using an existing LiveCd. At least 3-5 GB of free space At least 512 MB RAM and 1 GB swap (recommended) squashfs-tools genisoimage, which provides mkisofs An Ubuntu kernel with squashfs support (present in Ubuntu 6.06 and later) QEMU/KVM, VirtualBox or VMware for testing (optional) Make sure that you have installed the needed tools Apt and Tasks Hi