Installing Ubuntu on >4gb Thumb Drive?

[mitch.chesney]

Trying to keep this short -

Bought 16Gb thumb drive
Formatted Fat32 via Windows
Installed Ubuntu via Unetbootin
Only 4ish GB recognized (duh)
---begin of problems---
Looked into formatting with NTFS
Not a lot of documentation on this process via Windows
Something with NTFS causes more writes? Speeds degradation?


Now for a wrench in the works: I have an IBM x60s laptop... meaning no optical drive. Is there any way to set up a Ubuntu environment on a 16GB thumb drive without a CD? And of course, what are the steps?


Infinite praise for anyone who can expediate this. Thank you all.

[cosine352]

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-x-ubuntu-610/

you can do this. You need to format the thumb drive some other way though. I am assuming IBM x60s laptop has windows.

[mitch.chesney]

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[mitch.chesney]

"
DISK ERROR
PRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART
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Both on 8.10 and 6.10
I think that guide is flawed.
Any other suggestions?