Comments on: Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive http://www.linuxadda.com/2009/04/installing-ubuntu-on-a-usb-pendrive.html place to discuss Linux Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:23:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Everything 3.1 » Blog Archive » Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive http://www.linuxadda.com/2009/04/installing-ubuntu-on-a-usb-pendrive.html/comment-page-1#comment-218 Everything 3.1 » Blog Archive » Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:58:37 +0000 http://www.linuxadda.com/?p=72#comment-218 [...] Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive [...] [...] Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive [...]

]]> By: Paul Eycks http://www.linuxadda.com/2009/04/installing-ubuntu-on-a-usb-pendrive.html/comment-page-1#comment-51 Paul Eycks Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:22:26 +0000 http://www.linuxadda.com/?p=72#comment-51 I found that you left out a step in setting up a FAT16. Just before you enter a 6 you first need to enter a t for file partition type I found that you left out a step in setting up a FAT16. Just before you enter a 6 you first need to enter a t for file partition type

]]> By: Paul Eycks http://www.linuxadda.com/2009/04/installing-ubuntu-on-a-usb-pendrive.html/comment-page-1#comment-47 Paul Eycks Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:38:47 +0000 http://www.linuxadda.com/?p=72#comment-47 When I try to create the partitions using fdisk the step where you enter a 6 to set it to FAT16 does not work. Should I put all four steps on one line or should this work one step at a time? fdisk on 8.04 does not seem to work as shown here. When I try to create the partitions using fdisk the step where you enter a 6 to set it to FAT16 does not work. Should I put all four steps on one line or should this work one step at a time? fdisk on 8.04 does not seem to work as shown here.

]]> By: Ubuntu Look » Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive http://www.linuxadda.com/2009/04/installing-ubuntu-on-a-usb-pendrive.html/comment-page-1#comment-33 Ubuntu Look » Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:42:10 +0000 http://www.linuxadda.com/?p=72#comment-33 [...] Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive Being able to run Linux straight out of a USB drive is a great way to enjoy the liveCD experience, letting you run Linux from any computer you want. And it saves you from the trouble of carrying a CD along all the time, with your USB drive easily tucked away in your pocket. Here’s a simple tutorial that shows you how to install Ubuntu on a USB drive. Even though this tutorial uses Ubuntu as its base distribution, you can virtually use any type of Linux liveCD distribution. Read more at Linux Adda [...] [...] Installing Ubuntu on a USB Pen Drive Being able to run Linux straight out of a USB drive is a great way to enjoy the liveCD experience, letting you run Linux from any computer you want. And it saves you from the trouble of carrying a CD along all the time, with your USB drive easily tucked away in your pocket. Here’s a simple tutorial that shows you how to install Ubuntu on a USB drive. Even though this tutorial uses Ubuntu as its base distribution, you can virtually use any type of Linux liveCD distribution. Read more at Linux Adda [...]

]]> By: dougfractal http://www.linuxadda.com/2009/04/installing-ubuntu-on-a-usb-pendrive.html/comment-page-1#comment-30 dougfractal Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:06:50 +0000 http://www.linuxadda.com/?p=72#comment-30 Always good to see the manual way of doing it, so that its easy to tweak it, but it would be worth mentioning unetbootin - a general purpose iso to usb tool (intrepid users can use the jaunty package) and usb-creator - a Ubuntu USB desktop image creator Both these methods use casper-rw file in a -o loop mount so no need to split the disk. Always good to see the manual way of doing it, so that its easy to tweak it, but it would be worth mentioning

unetbootin – a general purpose iso to usb tool (intrepid users can use the jaunty package)
and usb-creator – a Ubuntu USB desktop image creator

Both these methods use casper-rw file in a -o loop mount so no need to split the disk.

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