[sf-lug] Ubuntu on a stick

[Christian Einfeldt]

HI,

I just loaded 10.04 onto the stick, supposedly.  Hopeully it works.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:

> Christian Einfeldt writes:
> > Darn, I should have attended the last SF-LUG meeting!  I just went out
> and
> > bought a USB drive and I am now attempting to put 10.04 on it.  I might
> need
> > that rubber Tux soon, if you were available to hook up!  Are you in the
>
> I never had much luck making bootable USB sticks of 10.04.
> Supposedly it's possible, but it only seems to work if you're
> already running a 10.04 that's exactly the same as what you're trying
> to put on the stick (e.g. burn a CD first and boot from that).
>
> If you're willing to run a beta OS, Ubuntu Oneiric (currently in
> beta 2) is MUCH easier to put on a USB stick than earlier versions.
> You can just use dd to copy the ISO file to the stick, like you can
> with Fedora.  For Natty (11.04), I had success with unetbootin for
> making a bootable USB stick (I had no luck with usb-cd-creator).
> Of course, neither of those is a long-term-support release.
>
> And neither dd nor unetbootin sets up the USB stick so it can save
> your settings from one boot to the next. It should be possible to
> do that after the fact, but it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere.
>
>        ...Akkana
>
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Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
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