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I realize this tidbit won't necessarily be useful to you at this time, but as far as running out of disk space goes...and thumbdrives larger than 64GB quickly get ridiculously expensive...I've successfully used a 256GB MicroSD with a USB adapter to boot Ubuntu from (or was it Debian...?)
Point is, the larger-capacity MicroSD cards are a lot cheaper than the equivalent thumbdrives, and will act just the same if you use a USB adapter. Although YMMV. Especially when it comes to booting off of them. Put I can confirm it has worked in my case.
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dandy72 wrote: MicroSD cards are a lot cheaper than the equivalent thumbdrives
But SD cards are less reliable and a lot more fragile.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Are they? I've broken a couple of thumbdrives over the years because they typically stick out of laptops, especially some of the older, physically larger ones.
And I can't honestly speak for their reliability - I've yet to have either a thumbdrive or MicroSD card die on me.
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Never had a thumb drive fail, but I've lost a couple of MicroSD cards for no apparent reason. I try to say away from them when possible.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The drive might be 16 or 32 Gig, but how big is the Ubuntu partition? It might set itself up with only 4 Gig.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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try running gparted so you can see the drives and partitions. if it is not on the install, try "sudo apt-get install gparted" from a terminal window. it will ask for your password and install the tool.
This tool is often used from a live cd to manage partitions on windows computers.
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Thanks for the help. I will try that out. I posted to Unix/Linux stack exchange [^] and some have said I can run the Trial from USB Stick 1 (16Gb) and install it to USB Stick 2 (64GB) for a full installation and then the limit should go away since I'll have a true Ubuntu install.
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Maybe a how to article when you end with all this?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It could well be that it installed the OS in a RAM drive and you are trying to add stuff there. Have a look with gparted, you may have to mount a partition on the flash drive and install your emulator there, not the root.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I believe you are correct in what was happening. I posted a question on unix/linux stackexchange[^].
Some have said that I can run the trial from USB STick 1 (16GB) and install it to USB Stick 2 (64GB) stick so I have a full installation and a larger partition size.
I will try that tonight. Hopefully it will be easy. 
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Years and years ago I can remember putting data into REM statements in order to save memory.
Then poking and peeking things. In those days we didn't have very much memory really. So I am surprised that I remembered it at all.
A REM statement was called a remark in those days and now is more commonly referred to as a comment statement.
I had Visual Studio 2017 open in a VB.Net Winform Project and just typed "REM This is a comment" and what the elephant it went green and thus was treated as a comment statement. I was shocked. Never knew that you could do that.
OK that was just after the class declaration so tried it within the code and the intellisense wouldn't allow it.
Wanting to and changing it to RemoveHandler as soon as you entered the space after the REM.
However If I pasted it there it would immediately accept it as a comment statement.
I can understand that there is some requirement for backward compatibility, but, really, this is ridiculous.
However sort of historically wonderful as well.
So I also opened up a C# project and tried some old C stuff and this is also in there.
Tried
/* this is a
* comment
*/
It all turned green.
It is actually better than just typing // on every line as it auto inserts the * until you terminate it with a */
This was accepted any where I typed it. Didn't know about this either.
Again seems a bit ridiculous but sort of nice.
Sometimes you learn from doing daft things.
(Maybe everyone else knew about this. I didn't)
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I knew about /* */ for C#. That multi-line comment style has been picked up by numerous languages because it can be so helpful to block comment code.
I didn't know about REM still being accepted, but I guess that makes sense.
Here is VBA code from an Excel spreadsheet I just opened up to try it out.
Sub commentTest()
Rem this is a test
Rem you shouldn
MsgBox ("rem alert")
End Sub
That's funny too, because in Excel the Rem statements turn green (as you said) and they are recognized as comments, but the code parser here on the site doesn't seem to recognize those statements as comments.
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Last time I used REM must have been on a TRS-80 (Model I) or an early Apple ][. I felt no need to get myself dirty with any BASIC since.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Last time before this was was most likely on a TRS-80 for me as well.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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/* ... */ was the original C comment. Long predates //
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Haha
Everything we type here is a comment so perhaps they should all turn green.
So also in VBA. Sort of makes sense.
A bit like all the old Wordstar shortcuts that still exist in MS Office Word and other apps.
This makes more sense though.
I would have imagined that REM would have disappeared completely by now.
I wouldn't have thought that it is an important backward compatibility thing. Maybe it is for some reason.
Alas it is still a reserved word.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Quote: old Wordstar shortcuts that still exist in MS Office Word
..and because of that, Redo is Ctrl+Y in many apps instead of the much more sensible Shift+Ctrl+Z, clearly and intuitively the opposite of Ctrl+Z. Dammit!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You can turn off the auto-generated single asterisk in tools/settings.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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OK Thanks.
It all must be documented somewhere.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: I can understand that there is some requirement for backward compatibility, but, really, this is ridiculous.
One might say this made you... Lose your religion 
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REM REM REM REM REDM REDM REDM REDRM REDRM REDUM REDRUM REDRUM REDRUM!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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REDЯUM 
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Lost it years ago before I even knew about REM statements.
Good Song though
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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It's a pretty much pointless attempt to encourage coders to add documentation in their code -- a waste of time, I know, because "Good Code Doesn't Need documentation", but at least they tried.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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