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Idea
#8437: Include an application to make it easy to install Ubuntu to a USB drive
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Written by MattBD the 12 May 08 at 19:10.
Category: Installation.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
It would be great if the Ubuntu CD included a utility that allowed you to easily install it to a USB flash drive (something like the one in Dreamlinux). While I have managed to do this before, it's not something that's easy for beginners to do and flash drives are more portable than a Live CD and will also work on computers without an optical drive, such as an Eee PC.
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Runn3r.cZe wrote on the 12 May 08 at 19:19
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i'm just thinking about buying a usb drive just for a linux distro... and have ubuntu on it would be great... my favourite system everywhere with me
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peetie wrote on the 13 May 08 at 17:17
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Yeah, this is a duplicate of 16, but it is important to note that installing on flash has problems with reliability. OTOH a "live" image like the CD version is very useful.
FWIW: Here is the simple (10 step version - cribbed from "flounder")
1. fdisk /dev/sdX #create bootable 750M FAT & optionally the rest Linux
2a. mkfs.vfat -n ubuntu804 /dev/sdX1
2b. mkfs.ext2 -n casper-rw /dev/sdX2 # optional step
3. apt-get install lilo;lilo -M /dev/sdX
4. mkdir isomnt; mount -o loop hardy-desktop-i386.iso isomnt
5. mkdir /media/sdX1;mount /dev/sdX1 /media/sdX1;
6. cp -a isomnt/.??* isomnt/* /media/sdX1
7. mv /media/sdX1/isolinux /media/sdX1/syslinux
8. mv /media/sdX1/syslinux/isolinux.cfg /media/sdX1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg
9. vi /media/sdX1/syslinux/syslinux.cfg # :/isolinux/syslinux/g|x
10. syslinux /dev/sdX1;eject /dev/sdX
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fluteflute wrote on the 13 May 08 at 19:13
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Something very similar is included in today's release of Fedora.
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