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Pencil Animation (Part 1 & 2)

Posted by boddhayan on May 16, 2009

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Kubuntu 9.04 Persistent USB Installation for Windows

Posted by boddhayan on May 16, 2009

USB Kubuntu 9.04 Persistent Install In the following tutorial, I will show you how to quickly install Kubuntu 9.04 to a USB flash drive using our custom batch installer within Windows. A product of canonical ltd, Kubuntu 9.04 features the popular, elegant and awe inspiring KDE desktop environment. This tutorial makes use of the casper persistent loop file (casper-rw) for saving and restoring most preferences, changes and downloads.

Kubuntu 9.04 Desktop Screenshot:

Kubuntu 9.04 Desktop Screenshot

USB Kubuntu 9.04 Flash Drive Creation Essentials:

  • Windows PC to perform conversion
  • Kubuntu 9.04 ISO
  • 2GB or larger USB flash drive (Fat32 formatted)
  • Ku904p.exe (contains the files to do the conversion)

Creating a Live Kubuntu 9.04 USB Flash Drive:

  1. Download and run KU904p.exe, extracting the contents to your PC. A KU904p folder is automatically created
  2. Download the Kubuntu 9.04 torrent and proceed to download the ISO using your favorite bittorrent client
  3. place the Kubuntu 9.04 ISO in the KU904p folder on your PC
  4. From the KU904p folder on your PC, click KU904.bat and follow the onscreen instructions
  5. Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot

You should now be able to boot from your own Live USB Kubuntu 9.04. In addition any changes that you make should be saved and restored on subsequent boots.

Persistence size: The default casper-rw loop file that becomes the partition for saving changes is only 1GB. If you have room and would prefer to use more space for saving changes you can download one of the following zip files and extract the new casper-rw file to your USB device, replacing the old one.

You will lose any saved changes by replacing your casper-rw file with one listed above!

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Xubuntu 9.04 Persistent USB Installation for Windows

Posted by boddhayan on May 16, 2009

USB Xubuntu 9.04 Persistent Installation. In the following tutorial, we will cover the process of installing Xubuntu 9.04 to a USB flash drive using Windows. Xubuntu is product of Canonical ltd that is based on Ubuntu but utilizes the XFCE desktop environment. Xubuntu is designed to use less resources than it’s  counterparts, making it  a great Linux OS to run portably from a USB flash drive or USB Hard Drive.

Xubuntu 9.04 Desktop Screenshot

USB XUbuntu 9.04 Desktop Screenshot

Prerequisites for creating a Xubuntu 9.04 Live USB

  • Windows PC to perform conversion
  • Xubuntu 9.04 ISO (download using a bittorrent client)
  • 2GB or larger USB flash drive (Fat32 formatted)
  • XU904p.exe (contains the files to do the conversion)

How to Create a Live USB Xubuntu 9.04 Flash Drive

  1. Download and launch XU904p.exe, extracting to your computer. A XU904p folder is automatically created.
  2. Download the Xubuntu 9.04 torrent and use your favorite bittorent client to download the ISO
  3. Copy the Xubuntu 9.04 ISO to the XU904 folder on your PC
  4. From the XU904 folder, click XU904.bat and follow the onscreen instructions
  5. Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot

You should now have your own personal Live USB Xubuntu 9.04 that will also save most of the changes that you make back to the USB device, restoring them on subsequent boots.

Persistence size: The default casper-rw loop file that becomes the partition for saving changes is only 1GB. If you have room and would prefer to use more space for saving changes you can download one of the following zip files and extract the new casper-rw file to your USB device, replacing the old one.

You will lose any saved changes by replacing your casper-rw file with one listed above!

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