Comments on: Portable Ubuntu (for Windows)

By: Clint

Clint — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:18:58 +0000

I’ve installed and tried it … but it’s killing me. Bursting with potential that is just out of my reach.

1) Purpose: Why would someone want to run ubuntu on windows?
- Because there are applications that are on ubuntu, that cannot be used on windows (exceptions include sharing .mozilla profiles and using thunderbird/firefox etc which I currently do)

2) Application: The real-life application would be, for example someone is using linux at home with apps like perhaps mutt, snownews, – then they would want to take this with them to a windows only computer (The work computer would be a good example)

3) The brick wall:
There should be some way (and I’m not saying there isn’t) to share the home directory from the linux-only machine to the flash-drive which contains Portable Ubuntu.
Portable ubuntu needs to be pointed to the shared home directory on that flash drive.

4) The Possibility:
The use of linux applications completed with saved configurations and settings on any windows machine… remember, when I get home, I’m not going to boot windows, I’m going to boot linux – infact, I can’t run pubuntu at home as I don’t have windows – unless I run it on wine! LOL infinite OS regression.

Any ideas – anyone?

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:35:46 +0000

You will need to configure your colinux network interface.

http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/Network

If you like colinux you may wish to install your own machine

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:50:31 +0000

Does anyone know how to get Windows to ping Ubuntu? Ubuntu’s IP address is 10.0.2.15, windows is 192.168.0.2.

Ubuntu can ping “192.168.0.2″ and “192.168.0.1″ (gateway) but not “google.com” – even though Firefox can access the web.

Windows can ping “192.168.0.1″ and “google.com” but not “10.0.2.15″.

I want to be able to ping the Ubuntu box so I can run a development web server on Portable Ubuntu and test with IE on Windows.

Any ideas?
Robin.

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:30:01 +0000

I believe you windows drive is under /media/c:

By: Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:17:38 +0000

Successfully installed Rails here.

Does anyone know how to access existing Windows files?
Places -> Network -> Windows Network is not doing the trick for me. Running on Vista.

Also, upgrade-manager was “not found”

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:29:38 +0000

I upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 without any problem. Just do
sudo upgrade-manager -d

It took a long time but succeeded at the end. Now I am installing OpenOffice.
I wish the developers of Portable Ubuntu update the distribution regularly. And also allow for username change (instead of pubuntu, changing that username manually broke the system).

By: Amit

Amit — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:04:18 +0000

Tried it on a vista machine, and had no luck. nothing appears after the splash disappears. Anyone has an idea?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:46:52 +0000

I works without any problem in my Vaio with Windows XP. I have installed applications (OpenOffice) and updated Ubuntu without problems. Doing the proper adjustments It is posible to upgrade to 8.10 but I didn´t have the time yet.

By: Portable Ubuntu | christoph-langner.de

Portable Ubuntu | christoph-langner.de — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:41:38 +0000

[...] Virtualisierungslösung, die keine administrativen Rechte unter Windows benötigt, bin ich über Portable Ubuntu [...]

By: bodhi.zazen

bodhi.zazen — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:47:12 +0000

@Francois Eraud : I am going to remove your last comment as it appears you are doing no more then trolling any your comments add little or nothing to this blog.

I would remind you that this blog is not titled colinux runs on windows without admin privilages.

You do not give me the impression you have bothered to try Portable Ubuntu for Windows. If you did you would see in fact you can run Portable Ubuntu on Windows without admin privileges which is all I ever claimed.