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Ubuntu Live and Java

I'm not sure if this is specific to the Ubuntu Live based installs, or if this would apply to any Ubuntu installation. However, attempting to install sun-java6-jre (or sun-java5-jre) has left me with a continuous string of errors until I did this…
ln -s / /cow
It seems as though one of the installation scripts has this [...]

Portable Ubuntu: working!

Thanks to a tip from Bryan, portable Ubuntu is now working for me, though not quite in the same way I envisioned it in the beginning.
I assumed that, in the end, I'd boot a real Linux partition with a real Linux boot loader. However, this is not the case. It seems that my laptop, and [...]

Portable Ubuntu - Part 2

As mentioned a few days ago, I'm having problems with Portable Ubuntu. This morning, fed up with my perfectionist ways, I decided to jump through the hoops required to do it the no-brainer way, that Justin suggested. I wish I hadn't.