running ubuntu from flash drive

[Robert Cole]

mike coulombe wrote:
> Hi, has anyone gotten ubuntu to run from a flash drive. If so do you know of a floppy boot image I can download that will get a older computer to boot from usb.
>  I have a dell 800 MHz, but I don't think it has built in capability of booting from usb. If it does it isn't in the boot order.
>  One other thing, is orca going to work on the live cd soon?Mike.
> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000754-5, 07/08/2007), Outbound message
> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
> 
> 

Hello, mike.

I have done some searching, and I found an answer to your question, I
believe...I intend to test it out eventually.

there is a program called Smart BootManager (btmgr) which can be
obtained here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/
I am not sure how to use it (yet), but it is a floppy bootloader which
can be used to boot USB flash drives and such.

As far as Xubuntu on a flash drive, I just found a tutorial (which I'm
going to bookmark) for setting up a flash drive installation of Xubuntu
Feisty (here):
http://xubuntublog.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/xubuntu-feisty-now-from-usb-drive/

I've wanted to do this for quite awhile, but I didn't see anything for
putting Feisty on a flash drive.

I hope this helps.  If I get the time to download the Xubuntu image and
get things working, I'll write you and let you know how I went about it.

Take care, and hope this helps some.