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["Ali Linx (amjjawad)" <amjjawad@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>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
>
>


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