Portable Ubuntu Remix Files

Since the  version of Ubuntu used in the "TRES"
version of pubuntu is no longer supported 
by Ubuntu,  I Have built a version that was 
upgraded to Ubuntu 10.4 LTS(long term support). 
There were numberous problems after the 
upgrade.  The fixes included are:

* Version 4 slimLZM2 U10.4
 
- Compressed with 7-zip Ultimate compression 
  method, LZM2 algorithm 
- Ubuntu 10.4.3 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
- COlinux 0.7.9 (kernel 2.6.33.7-co-0.7.9 
  stable release 2/16/11)
- root filesystem about 3.5gb
- Cygwin, Cygwin/X 1.7
- console keyboard configured for USA layout.
- Ubuntu Screensaver disabled to prevent 
  X server from going into a CPU loop.
- Fixed Plymouth aborts by mounting /dev as 
  tmpfs in fstab
- Fixed Xauth bad command by stripping 
  screen number in display variable(.profile) 
  and added entries for colinux gateway 
  to /etc/hosts.
- Fixed missing console output and gnome panel 
  with disabled shutdown button by disabling 
  plymouth*.conf files.
- Added sym link for dos2unix to fromdos 
  (needed by postmount_pubuntu.sh)
- run postmount_pubuntu.sh under bash to 
  avoid "- e" being added to fstab.
- Note: readahead exit status 4 can be ignored 
  (due to mount points not required for the 
  boot)
- Disable screen clear on console (TTY1) so 
  output visible.
- Remove Office software, games, and reduce 
  free space on root to approximately 10% 
  to reduce transfer time of compressed 
  distribution.


I am making this release available for others 
to use in files section of this Project. 
The names of the Files are:

Portable_Ubuntu_V4_slimLZM2_091311.EXE
Portable_Ubuntu_V4_slimLZM2_091311.md5

You can use a utility like MD5SUM or 
HASHCALC to verify that all of the file got 
downloaded correctly (the .md5 file above 
contains the hash for the .exe file). If all 
the files are in the same directory you can 
use the following command line: 

md5sum -c Portable_Ubuntu_V4_081411.md5 

It should print "OK" if the file is correctly 
downloaded. It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that 
you do NOT skip this verification step as the
probability of a transmission error is higher
with large file downloads.

Run the .EXE file by double clicking on it 
and it will ask where you want to put the 
decompressed files. After all the files are 
decompressed you can run portable Ubuntu by 
double clicking on the pubuntu.exe file in 
top level directory that the files were 
decompressed to. 

The configuration file still has the memory 
specified as 254 and was tested to run on 
a Pentium 4 with 1gb of memory. You may 
want to increase the memory size is you have 
more available. Also, the keyboard was set 
to the US layout for the console. If you 
need a different layout, using the following 
command in the console window: 

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup 

Also, the ubuntu screen saver has been 
deactivated to prevent the X-windows server 
from going into a CPU loop. Windows has its
own screensaver, so there is no need to have 
more than one screensaver active. 

I believe that most of the problems reported
on the previous version are fixed in this 
version (V4). If you find any that are not, 
please report it. If you have problems with 
the installation of pubuntu V4 report them 
in the forum. If you have problems with 
Ubuntu check the Ubuntu forums before 
reporting it here. If you have problems with 
Colinux, check the Colinux mailing list or 
wiki before reporting it here. 

Note: the .exe file scanned for viruses with
Kaspersky 2012 and is free of any viruses.  
My testing indicates that it takes about 3 
hours to download from sourceforge and about 
20 minutes to decompress the distribution.

Note:  you may want to install office software 
after decompressing as it removed to make the 
distribution smaller. Before installing 
additional software it may need to expand the
root image/partition. You may use the 
toporesize utility "tfile" on windows to
expand the container:

tfile device:\...\images\rootfs.img new_size

new_size is in megabytes. Then boot pubuntu and
run resize2fs to expand the file system to fill
the full partition. Consult the help forum for
a more detail description of the process of
expanding the root image.

-Bob