Hello Jonathan, What I do love about your emails that you explain in details, deep specific details and I just like that :D thanks for replying :)
Indeed, I have tried many ways. I was in love with the MultiBootUSB approach where I can put so many ISOs on my 8GB USB which I'm using beside my other 4GB USB and another 1GB USB stick. I have 3 :) And yes, these are not costly anymore. As explained in my previous email, I had a problem with testing raring-desktop-i386 [1] and after so many tries, finally it is working :D I couldn't agree more, the 'dd' approach is easy but if you have 4GB USB and more, the rest is waste. MultiBootUSB approach helped me a lot with the stable versions of Lubuntu but with the Beta versions, it failed. Maybe I should have written more about the advantages and disadvantages but it is also good sometimes when you teach someone how to do fishing rather than feeding him/her :P but I will remember that next time. I didn't have time to explain in details. Wait, that is why your emails are needed and much appreciated :D We are a team, right? so I like the idea of one of us complete the other ;) Thank you! On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>wrote: > Different people use bootable USB sticks and Linux in different ways. > If you want to teach and advise the Lubuntu community about use of USB > sticks, it would be good to first learn about and test several of those > ways, and understand their advantages and disadvantages, so we can then > recommend the most appropriate approach for different specific needs. > > On 04/06/2013 10:28 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > > > The method that I sent and wanted to share it with those who haven't > > heard about it nor used it before, is to create a LiveUSB and quite > > honestly, I have no idea if that is a 'persistence' or not? > > No, it is not. Using dd gets you the equivalent of the one ISO image > that you copy, no more and no less. One USB stick, one ISO image. If > that is what you want, great, you are done, stop, no need for any other > software tools to create your "LiveUSB" for Lubuntu. > > Some USB sticks are now a lot larger than Lubuntu ISO images. You now > see 16GB, 32GB, 64GB... there are even 256GB USB sticks, although they > are pricey, and I have never seen or used one. 32GB sticks are now > inexpensive, down to around US$15 online, so a good space vs cost > tradeoff for many users. 64GB for around US$30 is also worth > considering if you have a use for the extra space. [I know this is > US-centric, costs will be different elsewhere.] > > Clearly, using a whole 32GB or 64GB USB stick for just one 700MB ISO > (which is what your dd method does) can be considered somewhat wasteful. > Using "the rest" of the space on the USB stick for a persistent > filesystem, to store an installed and configured Lubuntu machine, is > very useful for some people. Creating multiboot USB sticks (so one USB > stick can contain many different ISO images, and provide a menu allowing > a user to choose which one to boot) is useful in other, different, > situations. You could theoretically fit over 90 different 700MB ISO > images on one 64GB USB stick -- but that would be a really *long* boot > menu :) > > Jonathan > > -- *Best Regards, amjjawad* *https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/* Lubuntu One Stop Thread <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755>| My Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad> | My Ubuntu Forum Profile<http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822> **
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