Ubuntu 9.10 on a USB Stick

Since Ubuntu 9.10 came out I have been playing with the Desktop and Server releases quite a bit. In the Server instance they now include Ubuntu’s Enterprise Cloud, which is really a fantastic piece of kit. More information can be found here. The part I like the most is being able to move your machines between a public environment (EC2) to a private one (your Enterprise Cloud). That’s all contained in the Server release and I’ll have a post on that later.

But what I want to inform you all of today is that with the live version of Ubuntu Desktop you can install it on a USB stick and boot from it. Whats different in this release compared to others is that there is a GUI tool for you to do it. None of this messing about with text files trying to get a bootloader and bios to work together.

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Installing TinyOS on Ubuntu 8.10

So installing TinyOS can be a bit of a pain sometimes. There are a number of options available but the easiest have to be the vmware image and the Debian repository install.
Personally I prefer installing via the Debian Repository provided by Stanford University.

This is my platform:
Mac OS X 10
VirtualBox 2.06
Ubuntu Hardy 8.10
TinyOS 2.1

The motes that I am using are the Micaz

I chose to install the TinyOS SDK on Ubunutu Hardy in a virtual machine on my Mac. ( I use VirtualBox for the virtual machine stuff)
The guide that is on the tinyos.net website is correct for the most part but is missing some steps. Below are the steps I preformed to install the TinyOS Platform.
The installation for TinyOS was preformed on a new install of Ubuntu using the default settings.

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