USB-Live

[linuxnoobie]

I am booting ubuntu 10 from a USB stick and am using the Broadcom STA driver to connect to my wireless network. The Broadcom B43 does not work at all with this built in wireless chip.

I can connect to my wireless network if i leave it open but as soon as I use WEP or any other security and try to connect it does not work. I looked at the wireless trouble shooting doc to see if i could solve this issue.

The problem might be that when i go to activate the Broadcom STA wireless driver form the SYSTEM-ADMIN-HARDWARE DRIVERS it says I need to restart the computer to activate the driver but once I do this I am back to square one again. I don't know if this is the reason i cant connect using WEP?


I did do this but It seems to just be for the B43 driver

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

Got this message at the end of it
Install complete
initramfs is disabled since running on read-only media

Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated?

I know the quick fix is just to install ubuntu on the hard drive but I just want to run it off the USB for now.



Here is something for people who want to run a few operating systems on a USB stick. It's easy and will allow you to bootup all these programs from the USB stick

Boot Multiple ISO from USB (MultiBoot USB) | USB Pen Drive Linux

[Rubberman]

When you boot from the USB stick, updates and driver installs are temporary only, and don't persist between reboots. You are effectively running a LiveUSB system, which is good to verify that your hardware works. I would suggest installing Ubuntu for real. Then activating the BC STA driver should work OK for you.

[rokytnji]

In case you want to make a Persistent live USB of Ubuntu 10.04 so you can save changes after reboot.

Option 2: Live USB with persistence
If you want to create a persistent, bootable USB stick, you will need to use LinuxLiveUsb that is the Linux Live USB creator.

Just double click on the executable file (LiLi USB Creator.exe) and follow the instructions.

First step is to choose the USB stick you wish to use.

Next you choose the file to use and since it is an .iso, if you have been following these instructions, you would click on that icon and point it to the appropriate file.

Once it has verified the distribution, you will be able to choose how much space to allocate to persistence.

Your maximum persistence size is 4000 MB since this is a limitation of the FAT32 file type. The larger you make the persistence area, the more software and/or updates you can install to keep your USB stick system up-to-date.

Next you need to check the options:

- hide created files

- format the USB stick as FAT32

The last thing to do after you have answered all the questions is click on the lightning bolt and wait.

You will be given feedback in the bottom box relative to what is happening along with an approximate time until complete.

You should now have a USB stick with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS that is persistent. Better yet, if you clicked all the options as I did, you can also run your new Linux distro on windows in a Sun Virtual Box environment.

This is done using Windows since

LiLi USB Creator.exe

is a Windows application for creating Ubuntu live usb with persistent features.

Linux Live USB Creator | USB Pen Drive Linux

[linuxnoobie]

This is just what i was looking for. I can tell you I need at least a 8 GB stick because the 2 GB sitick only gave me a choice of 1900 Mb for persistence. I am getting error messages trying to install the Broadcom driver because in my opinion there is not enough space to save it on the USB stick.