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http://www.gentoo-wiki.com/Booting_encrypted_system_from_USB_stick
gentoo-wiki.com A tutorial that shows you how to encrypt the entire hard drive with LUKS, partition it with LVM, and boot it from USB stick. All done manually, but it follows the KISS principle (tries to keep things as simple as possible). If you want a no-frills, do it yourself guide on how to encrypt your entire hard disk and boot it from an USB stick, this article may be of use to you.

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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225669
gentoo.org Due to a bug in blkid.tab cache handling it's possible that mounting an USB stick by uuid or label try to use some wrong device name like /dev/sdc when the device is actually called /dev/sdg. Workaround: delete /etc/blkid.tab and create a recursive symlink blkid.tab -> blkid.tab to prevent automatic recreation of the file. ln -s blkid.tab blkid.tab

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http://www.ubuntugeek.com/a-much-easier-way-to-install-ubuntu-on-a-usb-device-stick-or-hd.html
ubuntugeek.com This tutorial will explain A much easier way to install Ubuntu on a USB device (Stick or Hard Disk).I was reading How to install Ubuntu Linux from USB Stick posted a while ago, and found it to be quite some work to get Ubuntu working on a USB stick. Besides, having to prepare your USB device, creating a separate partition on it which will be more or less “useless” after the installation, giving...

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HowFlow — If you're on kernel 2.6.25 and experience problems with your USB devices, you should upgrade to version 2.6.25.1.

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http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/01/16/howto-usb-internet-sharing-with-linux-and-wm6/
linuxoss.com I have been trying to find out for months how to use internet sharing via usb on a windows mobile 6 device under linux. I had managed in a prior post to get bluetooth PAND working and even to get bluetooth DUN and USB DUN working but had been unsuccessful with the USB internet sharing..until now!

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