+ As we don’t burn any CD (only it the BIOS is old …) we help to keep or room or office tidy, we save money, pollute less, … ++ We can use it to boot the live USB in a computer different to our’s, which probably will have a different hardware (even if we can boot in persistent mode on it -I think that normally yes- after finishing the external computer’s configurations would be saved and when booting back again on our computer probably some of the configurations would be different to the ones we like to use) ++ The booting is faster (the persistence file is not used) + It’s useful to have the option to boot the live USB in fresh mode: If everything were in a single partition, with any operating system, all the files would be accessable and for example when trying to delete a personal file we could delete by accident an operating system file). ++ The operating system files are safe (for example Windows XP cannot access them: it only can access the first partition, where the personal data is. ++ Our personal data is easily accessed and managed by any operating system (for example, booting the Ubuntu Live of the same USB flash drive you don’t need to use sudo neither search within the file system and you can edit, delete, … them) + As our personal files are appart from the operating system ones: ++ Use our personal files, both from Ubuntu Live (for example the one in the same pendrive), an installed Ubuntu, other Linux distro, Windows, … ++ Boot Ubuntu in any computer (in Live mode) + This way the pendrive can be used for 3 things: ++ The second partition is for Ubuntu (the operating system), including the persistence file, casper-rw ++ The first partition is for our personal files or archives (songs, photos, videos, documents, …) + If you don’t have a (free) pendrive an alternative is given (see at bottom: Appendix B)) + If the BIOS of your computer cannot boot from USB (for example because it’s old) a solution is given so it can (see at bottom: Appendix A)) + No CD needs to be burnt (only it the BIOS is old …) + On booting you can choose to do it in a persistent or fresh way (loading or not saved configuration or session) + The operating system files are kept appart from the personal ones This tutorial shows how to create a bootable USB flash drive with both Ubuntu and personal data in it. = Safe & tidy live USB, with personal files, persistent or fresh boot, no CD, any BIOS =
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