Comments on: Portable Ubuntu – Part 2

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:24:02 +0000

Looks like partition was failing due to using a USB cable that wasn't
supplying enough power. Grrr. While this application is mostly useless
to me if I have to occupy more than one USB port, for the time being,
I'm moving forward using both ports and the manufacturer supplied
cable.

(and, Disqus does support OpenID. It just does it TERRIBLY. Like,
really terrible. If they weren't so good at everything else, I'd
probably walk away just for this. I've mentioned it to them before.
They say they are fixing it.

Here's a link to the required procedure for logging in using OpenID
with Disqus...
http://revjim.net/2008/03/13/disqus-and-openid/

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:19:02 +0000

I'm going to give this a shot today. Thank you.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:24:02 +0000

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:19:02 +0000

I'm going to give this a shot today. Thank you.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:14:09 +0000

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/09/28/usb-ubu…

Worked for me twice, your mileage may vary.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:30:27 +0000

Pro Tip : Drop to one of the background consoles to see extra errors not reported by the UI.

J/k about the "pro tip" part, that just seemed funny at the time.

AFAIK, if you can boot off of another USB installed OS, then this should work. However, the fact that partitioning is failing is far more suspicious.

Other note, it could be a drive ordering thing, but I think Ubuntu has moved to using the drive UID instead of the old clumsy path names.

If you think it's just grub, you can install it manually via another linux install. There are directions on how to do this under something like "grub recovery". Grub, at the very least, would show you a nice prompt, since it's good like that.

BTW, I thought your site used le OpenID? Discuss doesn't seem to like me.

By: farrisgoldstein

farrisgoldstein — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:49:48 +0000

I think the most likely problem is that you're doing something you're not telling us, and THAT'S causing it to break. ;)

Seriously, I have done this in general, with 7.10, on no less than 30 machines with at least 5 different cocktails of bios/usb/drive/chipset. The only time I've ever had a problem that couldn't be attributed to user error was when I actually had a bad drive.

Don't know what else to say. You're either still trying to do something the hard/"right"/wrong way, or you've just got some absolutely horrible luck.