I tried making a boot-able flash drive like described in the install guide, here, on the wiki.Using Unetbootin - did it - didn't boot from the flash drive (just doesn't work).I thought: Hei, I'll do it again maybe I did something wrong.No way - my flash drive is now 8MB (and it was a 32GB FLASH DRIVE!!).I tried everything, fdisk, diskpart in windows, Killdisk ...
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
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 have an old Thinkpad T61 laptop that I mostly use for writing documents.
I'd like to remove the hard drive and run some lightweight GNU/Linux distribution from a tiny USB flash drive. I don't need an HDD or SSD because I'm not going to have any big files on it.
Is there a distribution created for this purpose?
I realize I can burn a DVD of the ISO for any OS (ubuntu, server 2012 etc) to install a new VM but this seems like a waste. I just installed XenServer 6.1 and would rather just copy the .iso onto a flash drive on my windows laptop, plug it into XenServer (I can see it in XenCenter under removable storage) and install from there instead of burning a few DVDs.
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
When I used Windows, I could install a program to a flash drive by selecting its drive letter. How can I do that in Ubuntu 11.04? I want to install a game to a flash drive. If there is terminal commands, could you tell me what those commands might be? Thank you!
David
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For various reasons (not important here) I've decided that the best way to fix what's wrong with my laptop is to nuke, reformat and re-install from scratch. Normally, I'd download the install DVD's .iso, but I'm having trouble getting things to burn correctly on either my desktop or my laptop.
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