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origamitech
October 12th, 2009, 09:17 PM
I want to do the USB/Flash Drive thing, where Ubuntu is installed on the flash drive, and my laptop boots off the USB stick.
I have downloaded and burned the 9.04 CD, and have a USB stick ready.
What do i do now?

btw: I have Win XP, Toshiba Satellite Pro S300
ugm6hr
October 12th, 2009, 10:44 PM
Do you want to use it from a USB permanently, and save settings etc for each reboot, or just have a Live USB that resets itself to default after each reboot?

If the latter, I'd suggest just getting the Netbook Remix USB image, it is a lot easier than doing it manually. Although UnetBootin is fairly simple to use to achieve similar results.
origamitech
October 12th, 2009, 11:10 PM
use from USB permanently (that is, until my dad lets me dual-boot it natively).
ugm6hr
October 12th, 2009, 11:45 PM
use from USB permanently (that is, until my dad lets me dual-boot it natively).

Try this: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-ubuntu-904-persistent-install-windows/

I haven't done it, but their tutorials are usually pretty reliable.
origamitech
October 13th, 2009, 08:06 AM
Surely you could boot off the CD, then use the USB creator program?
jrev
October 13th, 2009, 02:03 PM
Hi all,
I have created the USB booting key on the 9.04 version but it cannot boot from my computer BIOS.

The booting priority list is only :
CD-ROM, LAN, HDD and FDD

Could you tell when they started to build PC's with this facility ?

Thanks a lot :P
Mighty_Joe
October 13th, 2009, 02:09 PM
Hi all,
I have created the USB booting key on the 9.04 version but it cannot boot from my computer BIOS.


Boot CD (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-boot-cd-for-ubuntu-810/) for computers that can't boot from USB
Mighty_Joe
October 13th, 2009, 02:12 PM
Surely you could boot off the CD, then use the USB creator program?

This, or do a full-install to the USB drive, if you have a large enough drive (4+GB). A full install will be faster than the "Live USB" install that the USB Creator makes. Have a look at my post in this topic (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1193680) for the procedure I use.