hiyas, Crikey... a 250MB usb hard drive? Please let me have some more details as the lowest we can get Lubuntu down to as a full install is 2.7GB on Hard Disk - I am sure JM would love to have a look at it.
Regards, Phill. On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Martin Houston <mhous...@deluxe-tech.co.uk>wrote: > > I have a couple of old Thinkpad T43s that a friend gave to me thinking that > he had killed them with a faulty USB device. > > A bit of googling and a 'deep reset' restored them both to life much to my > friends consternation. > > I offered them him back but was given permission to keep them :) > > Neither laptop had an internal hard disk so they were ideal experimenting > grounds for working with various USB and net booting projects. > > Something I found that works really well is a 2.5" (i.e. bus powered) USB > hard disk. > > Linux installed onto a 250MB one of these is really quite usable, much more > so than a USB memory stick. > > This is a route that you can use to get your friends to try out Linux you > lend to them, without having to go axeing that internal hard disk incumbent > just yet. > > Things will get even more interesting when USB3 ports become common, > especially once motherboards can boot from them! USB3 connected hard disks > are faster even than eSATA and even cheap USB3 memory keys have performance > on the par with old PATA hard disks (but the small extra advantage of zero > seek time!). > > Bootable CDs & DVDs only go so far. Telling newbies that they need to be > patient because of the very slow seek times is not easy. It does not create > a very good impression. > > Peoples first impressions of Windows are not of having to install it from > the media, so why should Linux have that disadvantage of first impression? > > One of the things we should be doing for others is 'Linux propagation' - if > you have a friend who wants to try Linux ask if they have a spare USB hard > disk (a smallish one would do!) or can risk the less than 50 quid it costs > to buy one. > > We need to build some logical volume manager based system replication > procedures. That 250MB hard disk Linux started life on a memory stick and > using just lvm volume replication and expansion moved onto the USB disk and > then onto the internal hard disk of another laptop. > > Having that complete bootable, golden copy of the OS is good insurance even > if you do move to the convenience and speed of internal disk in the end. > > USB > > -- > *Deluxe Technology Ltd* > /Linux Consultant/ > mhous...@deluxe-tech.co.uk <mailto:mhous...@deluxe-tech.co.uk> > http://www.deluxe-tech.co.uk > Mob: 07970 850961 > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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