witchbutter
November 13th, 2008, 09:00 PM
First, I ran the automatic Ubuntu USB stick installer from the 8.10 CD and it works and boots into essentially an installer CD from the USB stick rather than a physical CD. There was no issue with doing that.
This is great for someone trying to get an Ubuntu installed on a machine with no CD drive, but what I was looking for when searching and reading about the installer is something that creates a LiveCD for Ubuntu on which I can put various tools for diagnosis of problems and data recovery. I've never tried to do this before, and it seems there are plenty of how-tos on the web to get an installer iso to become bootable, but not much on what to do after that. If someone could point me to other resources or give some advice that would be helpful:
1) It is really cheap now to get a USB drive with greater than 8GB of space on it, so why would you use this script installer rather than simply doing an ubuntu install onto the pen drive, and then modify applications? Is the Live CD any more compatible than having a kernel with all possible modules built on a full install?
2)Why does everyone think it's great to have the usb stick formatted FAT16? I would need to try and get into Intel based Macs whose resource forks will be lost if you copy a file from that computer to the stick in that case.
3) On the Ubuntu Live CD, what part of the stick will be "persistent" after a reboot? Only /home?
This is great for someone trying to get an Ubuntu installed on a machine with no CD drive, but what I was looking for when searching and reading about the installer is something that creates a LiveCD for Ubuntu on which I can put various tools for diagnosis of problems and data recovery. I've never tried to do this before, and it seems there are plenty of how-tos on the web to get an installer iso to become bootable, but not much on what to do after that. If someone could point me to other resources or give some advice that would be helpful:
1) It is really cheap now to get a USB drive with greater than 8GB of space on it, so why would you use this script installer rather than simply doing an ubuntu install onto the pen drive, and then modify applications? Is the Live CD any more compatible than having a kernel with all possible modules built on a full install?
2)Why does everyone think it's great to have the usb stick formatted FAT16? I would need to try and get into Intel based Macs whose resource forks will be lost if you copy a file from that computer to the stick in that case.
3) On the Ubuntu Live CD, what part of the stick will be "persistent" after a reboot? Only /home?