USB Boot CD --> For booting Mac from Live USB

[windfix]

This post on pendrivelinux.com details how to do it for 9.10 and 10.04

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/make-a-...r-ubuntu-9-10/

Is anyone able to modify this for use with 11.10? I have been unable.

I need this for a graduate class I am teaching on F/OSS in Education, and I want my Mac-using students to be able to do what their PC-using classmates can do... namely get introduced to using Ubuntu 11.10 without touching their hard drives.

[2F4U]

Wouldn't it be easier to use the existing liveCD and boot from that? At least this works in most cases.

[windfix]

That would work, except it's too slow as an alternative to live usb (which can work as a pretty fast operating environment)

[phillat5dock]

This post on pendrivelinux.com details how to do it for 9.10 and 10.04

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/make-a-...r-ubuntu-9-10/

Is anyone able to modify this for use with 11.10? I have been unable.

I need this for a graduate class I am teaching on F/OSS in Education, and I want my Mac-using students to be able to do what their PC-using classmates can do... namely get introduced to using Ubuntu 11.10 without touching their hard drives.

I have searched the net looking for a way to do this and tried lots and lots of times with absolutely no success at all. At least the Live CD works!

[windfix]

Yes, the method described at pendrivelinux does work, however, for 10.04.

I too have scoured for a method that works, and that's the only one that does. Seems like someone who understands the method could update it:

"The USB Boot CD you create via this tutorial will contain the USB drivers necessary to open a USB connection. GRUB is used to launch initrd (Initial Ram Filesystem) from the CD. The Initial Ram Filesystem then locates the squash filesystem and persistent casper-rw persistence block file on the USB device and proceeds to boot the Live USB Persistent environment."

I did put in a request on the pendrivelinux contact form... maybe you can too.

[fdrake]

this should do it : http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagerdl.html

unzip > burn the iso inside the folder into a cd > plug the live-usb-disk and insert the boot-cd into the computer > when you start up the computer from the disk it will bring you a menu to choose wich device to boot from (usb/hdd/cdrom/etc)>select usb

hope this works for the mac too, since i don't have one I cannot not test it but I did test it on pc that don't boot from usb and it works fine.

[windfix]

fdrake, Thanks!!

This totally works. I am replying from a MacBook Pro running 11.10 off of USB. This will save me so many headaches while introducing students to F/OSS... they can all use their own laptops, run from USB, and I'll never need to touch their hard drives - even the Mac users.

Thread solved!