My Maxstor 250 GB hard-drive in my newly installed Ubuntu workstation went kaput on me today…I was so sad and depressed because I spent many hours configured software and customized the desktop to my liking. And just about when I begin to settle down and enjoy my newly found happiness, disaster strikes.
So depressed and no spare storage laying around, I use my live CD to boot up the machine and trying to salvage any tip & trick files I collected during the installation and configuration that I stored in the home directory, using a 4GB SD card in the workstation built-in memory card reader as a backup storage…then suddenly, a crazy idea crossed my mind…how about install Ubuntu onto the memory card, is this even possible? Oh well, one way to find out, what do I got to loose, this experiment can ease the depression of loosing a hard-drive.
Well what da ya know, I have to set the computer bios to boot up using a removable device and make sure it will recognize the memory reader/card during boot. And then boot up my live CD and choose the install option. And voila, the software recognized the “drive” and allow me to install. The speed is, of course as expected, a bit slower than that of a hard-drive. Isn’t this cool? See if Microsoft Windows can do that.
After installation on a 4GB SD card, still have 1.3GB left
