Hello to all the people in mdl forums! So that's my first thread, so forgive me if i do smthg wrong! I have this 4gb usb flash drive and want to make it a windows driver (using WinToUsb app) for my laptop. *The laptop has no hard drive. *I have another 4gb flash drive i can use. Can it hold Windows 7 home premium or do i need a larger flash drive? Or witch OS is light enough for a 4gb flash drive? All i need to do is use the laptop just for internet browsing just for a month, until i get a hard drive. *i dont't have time for studying linux!
Hello, I have used WinToUSB but I can't remember exactly the amount of space needed for Windows 7. I believe it uses a little less than the official requirements... (Officially Windows 7 needs at least 16 GiB for a 32-bit installation and 20 for a 64-bit) So, without doubt, I think you need more than 4 GiB but I can't ensure you 16 GiB are enough; 32 are. On the other hand, running an OS on USB stick is recommended with memory sticks that have good reads and writes. If you still want to use Windows 7 + WinToUSB, maybe Starter edition and 16 GiB can do the work. I do not know what's your meaning of Internet browsing and aside of your skills with Linux I suggest you to use Ubuntu + Rufus (rufus.akeo.ie); it fits in that 4 GiB sticks and you can do live boot without need to install it. Good luck!
Ī¤hanks a lot mate! How about a link for downloading <ubuntu+rufus> to the stick? I understand that's an OS that comes with an internet browser and all, right?
thanks! Installed ubuntu on the stick, everything works fine, i browse the internet with ubuntu firefox just fine, but trying to get to a flash internet game i have to download flash player. So i download it, but the flash player exe file won't run, and i get the "an error has occurred" window. What should i do? Note that i run ubuntu just from the stick and has not installed it, since there's no hard drive in the laptop.
Linux doesn't use .exe files for installation, thats only a linux thing. To my knowledge, there was a version of flash on linux, however I think Adobe has abandoned it; some sites should still work with HTML5 though.
You could get Flash Player from Ubuntu Software Center ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Software_Center#/media/File:Ubuntu_Software_Center_icon_v3.svg ). Search for "flash player" and install it (You don't need to get installed Ubuntu); that's all. If for some reason that version doesn't work you maybe can install manually Fresh Player Plugin (by Rinat Ibragimov; webupd8.org/2015/01/fresh-player-plugin-sees-new-release.html )