How can I use a USB flash drive to boot Linux from a partition on (another) hard drive?
I'm trying to install Linux on an encrypted partition on the hard drive (using LVM on LUKS).
Since /boot must be on a separate, unencrypted partition, I would like to store it on a USB flash drive.
My plan was to install GRUB (2) to the flash drive (/dev/sdb) and boot Linux from it's MBR, or if the drive was
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I've just finished assembling my PC and I'm trying to install Ubuntu on it (there is no operating system on this machine). I downloaded Unetbootin on my Mac, downloaded the .iso image, and ran Unetbootin to put it on my flash drive.
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I purchased a brand new Lap Top Asus zenbook Prime, and I tried to install Backtrack 5 r3 on in it but i couldn't,
My problem was I Boot thru a flash drive because the lap doesn't have a dvd-rom, so on the boot screen option i had 2 option for flash drive
First was UEFI mode flash drive
Second was regular travel mode flash drive
I tried to UEFI, but i couldn't load the backtrack
Then I
I'd like to fully install Ubuntu 12.10 onto a 16GB USB 3.0 flash drive, not create a live USB but to treat the flash drive as an external hard drive. I've read it's possible and I know my computer can boot from it. However, it doesn't work when I try. I've booted a Live USB from another flash drive and installed Ubuntu onto the 16GB one.
I have Ubuntu 11.04 full install on a 16G flash drive and it has the latest updates and run fine.
I was wondering if i should now upgrade to 11.1 and then finally to 12.04 on the drive?
If i do that are there potential problems, bugs etc?
Or should i just do a full 12.04 install on a new 16G flash drive and work out the bugs etc, that pop up and leave my 11.04 flash drive by itself since i have
Compression methods? I really missed that, thak you! The filesystem have now ~680MB, pretty acceptable. Now I discovered that the fs on the flash drives is iso9660, witch makes the flash drive read-only. Already tried to modify the crunchbang ISO adding the new squashfs, but the flash drive wouldn't even boot. I guess I can decompress the ISO, copy to the flash drive and install GRUB on it.
So basically I installed Windows 8 and have not found it a decent OS, to my chagrin when I tried to install the latest Ubuntu via flash, the flash drive wouldn't load. It just went to the windows 8 startup page. I changed the boot settings and everything, any thoughts?
NOTE: Flash drive created from uncompressing the iso onto my flash drive via 7zip.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 64-bit alongside Windows 8 32-bit. I have burned multiple discs with Ubuntu 64-bit and 32-bit and I mounted the .iso file to a USB flash drive. I went into bios and changed the boot preference to CD/DVD when I was attempting to boot from the DVDs and removable drive when I was attempting to boot from the flash drive.
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