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**Done_Fishin** · 06-05-2009, 12:00 PM

I prefer the idea of booting from a USB flash drive or Hard drive for linux distro's

Booting from USB is quite helpful because it's not intrusive on your main system although it can be painfully slow when booting.

CD2USB is a good way to go with Ubuntu giving the ability to save any changes.

I don't really see the purpose (apart from the fact that you can say I did it!!) of overloading ones 'puter with vmware .. unless you want to switch between OS's whilst working. I assume that it will slow things right down unless you are only doing "text input", but then as yet I haven't gone down that root to be able to judge .

take a look at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ for usb boot and http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Cd2usb for making a Ubuntu or super ubuntu install to an HDD on usb adapter

For DSl through the pendrive link

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/all-in-one-usb-dsl/

06-05-2009, 12:00 PM	#6 (permalink)
Done_Fishin Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brit living in Greece Posts: 7,416 OS: WinME, WinXP Pro SP3, Win7 Beta, Ubuntu 9.04 & Netbook Remix & CD2USB, Mepis 6.5, Fedora 10 My System	I prefer the idea of booting from a USB flash drive or Hard drive for linux distro's Booting from USB is quite helpful because it's not intrusive on your main system although it can be painfully slow when booting. CD2USB is a good way to go with Ubuntu giving the ability to save any changes. I don't really see the purpose (apart from the fact that you can say I did it!!) of overloading ones 'puter with vmware .. unless you want to switch between OS's whilst working. I assume that it will slow things right down unless you are only doing "text input", but then as yet I haven't gone down that root to be able to judge . take a look at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ for usb boot and http://hacktolive.org/wiki/Cd2usb for making a Ubuntu or super ubuntu install to an HDD on usb adapter For DSl through the pendrive link http://www.pendrivelinux.com/all-in-one-usb-dsl/ __________________ . . I'm not old!! I'm age impaired .. D_F I DON'T PLAY GAMES How to mark your thread as solved HDD DIAG UTILS TSF's Photographer's Corner Last edited by wmorri; 06-05-2009 at 12:43 PM.