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Ubuntu 8.04 USB Hard Drive Installation; This tutorial covers one way to install Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to an external USB Hard drive. It is also possible to install Ubuntu to a 4GB+ flash drive using this method as we did, however, due to the additional write cycles that occur on a full blown install, the life of your flash drive may be reduced. Unless you use a Fast Solid State USB Flash Drive.
How to use a Floppy to Boot from USB: If your system does not support booting from a USB device but does have a floppy drive, this guide will show you how to create a floppy boot disk to boot Linux from a USB flash drive using a Grub Boot floppy disk.
The following tutorial will show you how to install Pendrivelinux V1 Full Blown (non compressed) to an external USB Hard Drive (Rotating Platter, not a USB flash drive or flash memory stick) via Pendrivelinux V1. To do this, we create an ext2 partition on the USB Hard Drive. Next we extract or decompress filesystem.squashfs, add a Grub Boot Menu and reconfigure xserver-xorg.
Cairo Dock Black Background Fix: Cairo-Dock is an open source desktop dock for Linux. It provides an application launcher, taskbar, and shortcuts on a desktop-like interface. The dock is designed to be visually appealing and customizable, allowing users to enhance their desktop experience.
In the following tutorial, we will show you how we installed Cairo Dock on Ubuntu 9.10. Cairo Dock is an animated application launcher or desktop dock that works much like the dock used in Mac OS X, but is much more flexible and customizable. Cairo-Dock also supports composition and Open GL rendering, allowing for some fascinating animated effects.
Some Windows Vista users may experience an issue when attempting to run the makeboot.bat file from their USB drive. The makeboot.bat file is suppose to install a syslinux hidden ldlinux.sys file and the MBR to make the drive bootable. However, in such cases, the script may display an error that looks something like the following:
How to Customize the GNOME Ubuntu Start Menu Panel Icon: Learn how to personalize your Ubuntu desktop by changing the default GNOME start menu panel icon to a custom one. This tutorial walks you through the steps, enabling you to enhance the look of your system. Originally tested on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, the process works for many older and modern versions of Ubuntu that use GNOME.
Along with the final release of Ubuntu 8.04 came a bug which broke the persistence feature, ultimately dropping the user to a shell when booting with the persistent option. As it turns out, the problem lies with permissions being set to 755 for the cow device (strangely enough the prereleases did not have this problem). In the following tutorial, I will show you how to quickly fix the problem. This is the same process we used to create the custom initrd.gz file that is distributed with our Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron related USB flash drive installation tutorials.
The following tutorial covers the process of making Totem Media Player play encrypted DVD's. This tutorial assumes that your using Debian Linux or a distro based purely on Debian. It will allow you to have your own Debian DVD portable media center.
Running Syslinux from Windows across different Windows versions: Syslinux is a popular bootloader that can be executed in various Windows environments, including DOS. This guide provides detailed instructions on how to use Syslinux across different versions of Windows, from DOS, Windows 98/ME to the latest Windows 10 and 11 releases.
