Comments on: Portable Ubuntu: working!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:14:03 +0000

I'll try them out. Thank you!

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:14:03 +0000

I'll try them out. Thank you!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:30:26 +0000

Yep, it's miserably slow. I use it primarily for what many people use Knoppix for - as a rescue system for dead Windows partitions. If I actually had to use it as a primary system daily I might have trouble.

Java is a pain but I believe I've used these instructions before (on a desktop install):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=76702

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:53:06 +0000

I did consider it.

The problem is I only know very litte about syslinux and kernel building. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get it right without following the instructions I had which did it this way. I didn't want to spend hours more trying to figure out that one bit.

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By: Martin Atkins

Martin Atkins — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:11:19 +0000

Nice to hear that you got it working.

Did you consider putting the bootloader and kernel in a separate FAT16 partition and just having the rest of the system on a normal ext3 partition? That way, you can mount the FAT16 partition at /boot and allow kernel upgrades to be done as normal.

Your approach makes me nervous because the filesystem contents are going to change dramatically at some point in the boot process. I guess it's not a major problem in practice — filesystems get mounted pretty early on during boot — but it's just another thing you have to be weary of when installing/configuring software.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:14:02 +0000

Thank you! That was the trick. Didn't know the package name.

I'll add Multiverse and try that tonight.

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:05:43 +0000

Multiverse contained both 1.5 and 1.6 for me. If you're getting 1.5, you can probably also get 1.6. (Or at least, I was able to simply install them).

mreynolds@onosendai:~$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
sun-java6-bin: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

mreynolds@onosendai:~$ apt-cache showpkg sun-java6-bin
Package: sun-java6-bin
Versions:
6-03-0ubuntu2 (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
Description Language:
File: /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
MD5: 026bcd0fe69901775823d7dfb9da4a5a

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