Install From Flash Drive

I keep my Music on a USB flash drive. I do not have room on my laptop to store my mp3 library so this is not an option. Whenever, I remove the flash drive (or restart my computer, i think) my music player (rhythmbox currently) forgets where the music is stored. I have to go through reimporting my whole music library which is time consuming and tedious. I imagine that my music player can't find the files because the flash drive gets mapped to a different mount point or something after restarting or removing the drive.

TL;DR
How can I setup my laptop so that my music player can find my music library on a usb flash drive without needing to constantly re-import my library?

Also, I have the same question to syncing to cloud storage. How can I automatically sync flash storage to the cloud?

Alright, I followed this tutorial http://blog.qnology.com/2014/07/hack...nd-mobile.html To install linux on my Pogoplug v4 but when I restarted it just blinked green forever and nothing happened. I figured the OS did not install onto the flash drive and I was correct. I followed these instructions http://archlinuxarm.org/support/reinstallation and formatted the drive, got the correct Debian linux distro and put it on there, then put the drive back into the Pogoplug.

Success! Green light turned steady and the flash drive light flashed. After a few seconds it settled down but occasionally will access the flash drive (indicated by blinking USB light). Only problem is I cannot SSH into the pogoplug anymore. It has an IP address from the router. The router says its attached. But, when I use Putty to SSH into that address I get “Connection refused”

I know this is simple but I am very new to linux.

Thank you

I've just started tinkering with Linux and have a question about installing it to my current machine.

I'm running Win 7 Pro and have installed Oracle VM Virtual Box on the C:\ drive which is a 256 GB SSD. I want to create a 15 GB virtual hard drive on a second internal hard drive that has more space on it, and install Zorin 9.1 to it. Currently my C: drive is about 60% full and I'd rather not fill it up past that.

So my question is: Can I run Zorin off of a hard drive other than the C: drive?

Thanks for your consideration.

Dave

Hi guys,

I'm new to this forum and linux too.
I thought of installing a lightweight distro of linux and did some research on the net where I found people recommending Puppy Linux. Plus it is (theoretically speaking) possible to run it from a USB (flash) drive which I decided to try out but it seems like it's not that simple a task as a lot of people (all over the internet) say it is.

What I tried so far is this: installing it into a thumb drive using unetbootin follwing a youtube tutorial (which basically showed how to download an iso of puppy, use unetbootin to make the thumbdrive bootable and install puppy on it). It didn't work. The USB wasn't recognized as a bootable device. I know for sure it can be booted from it since I tried ubuntu from the same USB and the same Laptop (which is able to boot from USB).

I thought that something with the Flash Drive not OK so I tried to use a windows installer to install puppy like other windows programms but this didn't work either. This time Puppy was recognized because there was an option to boot either Puppy or Windows 7 but when I chose to boot from Puppy nothing happens just a screen flash, some letters in the top left corner saying something like NTSC or NTSF (I can't read it properly because it goes away too fast) then after the screen flash the whole thing again (boot from win 7 or Puppy I choose Puppy again the flash... basically a loop).

Any ideas what I'm doing wron or what the problem is?

Thank You for any replies.

Lots of posts on internet about flash drives ending up read-only in Linux after using on a windows or mac systme. Gather it is a problem with incorrectly ejecting or the ejection being poorly done.

Usually I can go back to the box and re-eject and all is well. This time even GParted and the resident fedora 21 Disk Utility programs did not even see the drive (which Was visible under "files").

Using disk utility on the "offending" machine, it seems there were many files that were truncated (due to some eject issue? Note the ejection was done "according to Hoyle" ); regardless the flash drive was still read-only. Howeverk, re-trying GParted, which now recognized the drive, the drive was unmounted checked. Some repair was necessary. Currently, I can read, write and copy within the drive.

However, the drive itself is still only read-only for all but the owner (which is not even root). I cannot copy any file to the flash drive. Chmod does nothing (no matter if root or other user tries). I suppose I should be satisfied for the access there is, but if anyone has any more suggestions, it would be great.

Thanks in advance for any info/interest

when I boot Linux from a USB drive on my laptop, I am unable to connect to the internet through my wireless on my laptop.

Help Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(BTW I'm running Xubuntu 15.04)

I'm starting to understand Luckybackup. And gold_finger said:

Quote:
Assuming your Xubuntu filesystem is Ext4, example of doing initial backup would be something like this:

* Spare USB with large partition formatted as Ext4 and labeled "BACKUPS"
I know the EXT4 is more friendly to Linux but all my flash drives are FAT32 (and I'll be backing up to those flash drives) and I'd really like to keep them that way (because sometimes I do plug them into Windows machines--and I know FAT32 works with both Windows and Linux). So is there any reason I would have to use Ext4 and not FAT32 in backing up stuff in LuckyBackup?

I confess to great ignorance about the difference between the EXT and FAT formats. Like if I do format a flash drive to EXT 4 and want to plug the flash drive into a Windows computer it just doesn't work? Like, what's the advantage to using EXT4 then if FAT 32 works with Linux and Windows? What are the disadvantages to using EXT4?

Thanks.

I'm not really a newbie, but thought that this question would fit best in here. I had the genius (not really) idea of installing GRUB2 onto my USB flash drive, then realized that it wasn't such a great idea after all. I reformatted the USB drive and after that my computer failed to boot when it was plugged in (presumably searching the drive for a bootloader that doesn't exist). It does not even get to the BIOS screen unless I unplug my USB.

Then, I tried doing
Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=1

and I still have the same problem. I'm not really sure what to do at this point.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks.

I'm trying to install mint on my freshly wiped W.D. hard-drive.I have an acer 280?.I downloaded a usb-iso,and mint rebbecca 32bit for my flash drive.I can't get it too load.

I have a PC with around 2 GB of RAM, a hard drive, a DVD drive, and USB ports, in a remote vacation home with no Internet access. I would like to install either Mint or Ubuntu and applications like LibreOffice.

In my permanent residence, I use Win 8.1 in a PC with internet access and Virtualbox to run other operating systems. I can use this to prepare the installation disks.

Is it possible to install the OS and then install software from a DVD or USB drive to a PC without Internet access? Also, is it possible to come up with a customized install disk containing the OS and software to install? If so, how do I go about preparing the installation disks?

Thanks for the help.