make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible

[Paulus Esterhazy]

Alexander van Loon schrieb:
> Please make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive
> easily accessible.

I agree that this is important. Installation from USB pen drives has
been a curiously neglected installation method, given that it doesn't
require a blank cd, or an optical drive (think small notebooks).

There is a nasty bug in gutsy that causes the installer (ubiquity) to
leave bogus lines in /etc/fstab. The installer evidently thinks that
it's installing from a regular CD drive, and adds a line containing the
USB disk's device (say, sdc) and the specified file system iso9660 to
the fstab. If you subsequently plug in a pen drive, GNOME mount tells
you that there is an "invalid mount option", as the cdrom mount options
don't fit together with mounting a usb stick. Forums are teeming with
reports of this bug.

I couldn't find out if this is still present in hardy. This report seems
similar, and it hasn't received much attention:

https://launchpad.net/bugs/150872

Thanks,
Paulus