[Cialug] portable, configureable ubuntu....

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Mon Mar 30 23:16:48 CDT 2009


2009/3/30  <jrnosee at gmail.com>:
> Ok, so I know it's supposed to be easy enough to put ubuntu on a portable
> drive.  My question then is, is it like a live cd would be?  I've never set
> one up but I would imagine it would save your changes (txt files, installed
> apps, etc).  Is there any way to make it so it could use a general config
> set or select a set for a specific computer?  Say if I want a config that
> uses the nvidia drivers for my personal computer, but still use generic
> elsewhere?
>

Yes, if you use the startup disk creation tool to create a usb thumb
drive version of Ubuntu it is configurable and persistent.

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