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Idea #17059: Specific full install option in removable media

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #15532: (any) LiveCD to LiveUSB tool.
Written by raovsem the 5 Jan 09 at 17:56. Category: Installation. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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The idea is to provide a specific option for full Ubuntu install for removable media (pendrive or portable hard drives).

- The difference from the current "USB Startup Disk" is that it should be a full install with full set of features (kernel upgrades, multiple user accounts, private folder, GDM customization...). No persistence file will be needed for this kind of install, so full space of this drives can be used.

- The difference from the current "Full install" in a drive partition is that it should provide a hardware checking on every boot process (as it's done today in LiveCD or LiveUSB) to ensure the system can work in different hardware configurations (after all, it's a removable media!).

The focus of this new install option is having a full featured & hardware agnostic Ubuntu system in a pendrive instead of a LiveUSB that in practice is more oriented to a later full install on internal Hard Drives.

As big size removable drives are getting more popular and more affordable this can be very useful for everybody to keep a full system in their pocket...
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edm1 wrote on the 6 Jan 09 at 15:52
Compared to the amount of man hours it would take to implement this i dont really see many advantages for the majority of users.

There is always remastersys (http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/) if you really need to take your current system somewhere with you.


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