Hi,
After reading what I could find on installing ubuntu on a pendrive, I finally followed instructions at http://beastie.cs.ua.edu/cs150/usb-install.html, as had very clear hints for tweaking the system to reduce the number of disk writes, necessary for life of pendrive. So installed 8.0.4.2 on 8G Kingston DataTraveler, with ext2 as the file system type and mount point as /.
I tried two installs, the first time using the advanced button to make sure that grub would be installed on the USB drive, and the second time installing without grub.
In both cases, the system doesn't boot. The first case, with grub installed on pendrive, grub booted, showing both pendrive Ubuntu boot and the Ubuntu on my laptop as possible booting options. However, choosing any of these just led to errors. Nothing booted, not the pendrive Ubuntu or Ubuntu originally on my laptop. The second case, with no grub installed, nothing happens at all, there is just a blank screen with a blinking line in the top left corner.
Hope someone has experience installing on pendrives. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Gin Ken
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