Another thing is that you shouldn’t install restricted drivers or vmware tools as they will create a problem when you boot on machines where that specific piece of hardware isn’t present. It may also help to use cinnamon, I have described how that can be used in an earlier blog post. Also we shouldn’t keep update the systemeach time a tiny update is released and ther is no benefit of caching the packages or letting ubuntu install multiple kernels. You can disable this using the noatime option in /etc/fstab. Linux keeps a track of the timestamps when files are accessed, this involves writing data to the disk whenever a file is used on a usb drive this is something we don’t need. Your OS form now will be in your pocket but I’ll mention a few tips that will make your performance slightly better by using the usb drive more efficiently. Once you are done with it, you have successfully installed ubuntu to a usb drive, you can use this to boot any computer. There is no way you can compare the performance of the RAM to a cheap usb disk. Don’t create any swap partition during the installation that will literally kill your usb drive because it continuously writes data to and from the swap.Īlso, having a swap partition on a usb drive doesn’t make too much sense. Once the device is partitioned correctly we can install ubuntu as we would on an ordinary hard drive be sure to install the boot loader to the usb drive too. So we’ll also tune a few parameters after the installation to maximize the life of the usb drive. Another important thing to note is that for any usb storage device, it’s life is affected more by the number of writes that reads. We can use either gparted or cfdisk from the live cd to do this. The first step is to partition the pendrive, I have a 16 GB device and I’ll use half of it for the linux installation and the other half for data. In this post I’m going to walk you through installing ubuntu on a usb drive using vmware, that can boot any system not only virtual machines also we’ll create an ntfs/fat32 partition so that we can use it with windows computers as an ordinary pen drive too.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |