What is your main Ubuntu installation media

[gotenks05]

I have noticed the many on this forum as a whole use Ubuntu, but certainly not all do. For those that do run Ubuntu, what is your main installation media for Ubuntu? The choices are: Official LiveCD, custom LiveCD/DVD, or other.

I use a custom LiveDVD

This is no survey, just something for fun.

[jonathanysp]

i like to put the images onto usb drives since its more efficient and faster

[Bachstelze]

Minimal CD.

[drawkcab]

i like to put the images onto usb drives since its more efficient and faster

Yeah, once I figured out how to do this I gave the optical media a rest.

[speedwell68]

I use the standard Live install from a USB stick. Disks are slow and really bad for the environment.

[Bölvaður]

i like to put the images onto usb drives since its more efficient and faster

copy what jonathanysp said, paste what jonathanysp said

[Stan_1936]

i like to put the images onto usb drives since its more efficient and faster

WHAT? Explain.

[speedwell68]

WHAT? Explain.

Installing an image from a USB stick is way faster than from a CD or DVD.

[Dragonbite]

I usually use uNetbootin to install it on a USB stick from the ISO since the laptop doesn't have a built-in CD-Rom drive and the external one requires too much work and space.

Plus I don't like having to keep burning CDs for 1-4 installations at most!

This time, though, I may be try the Update Manager update and see how that goes (after backing up of course).

[ugm6hr]

i like to put the images onto usb drives since its more efficient and faster

Or, more recently, just install the Netbook remix (img image to USB copied directly) and then add my chosen DE (Xfce) & a handful of other apps.

[Perfect Storm]

alternative or minimal CD - depends on my mood and on what computer I install it on.

[MasterNetra]

I use CD because A: I don't have a DVD writing drive. B: I use LiveCD as a emergency disk and one my computers is a 2002 Gateway Desktop which doesn't support booting from a USB Drive, heck it just barely made it to supporting USB 2.0

[earthpigg]

i didn't even bother purchasing a CD drive for the computer i recently assembled.

mobo, cpu, ram, solid state drive, video card, psu, case with usb ports in front. done.

i dont have any machines that ubiquity graphical installer will not run on, so i use the graphical ubuntu installer -- either with Ubuntu or a custom Ubuntu remix.

and yes, using ubuntu usb startup disk creator is faster than burning a cd-r.

turn that 'reserve extra space' down to zero when making the bootable thumb drive, and watch how much quicker it is to create.


i either use ubuntu usb startup disk creator (package is called usb-creator, if anyone comes across an ubuntu remix that does not include it) or -- if it not an ubuntu-based .iso -- i use unetbootin.

sometimes i dd the .img file over.