[ubuntu-uk] creating a USB startup disk

[David King]

I have created my live USB Ubuntu flash drive, which is certainly now 
bootable, so nothing wrong with the drive itself. But, it had an error 
when booting about not finding the linux kernel. I will have to 
investigate further when I have the time, but at least I know that the 
flash drive is bootable.

But I do not see why the Ubuntu program to create a USB startup disk did 
not work in making the flash drive bootable, whereas the "Install Live 
USB" program which I used did make it bootable. I also noticed that this 
latter program divides the flash drive into two partitions, which makes 
more sense than the Ubuntu startup program, so that there is a main 
bootable partition and a second partition for the home directory and 
files which is persistent.


David King



Ted wrote:
> David King wrote:
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>> I have now found a Live USB creator at
>> http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Installer-Setup/Ubuntu-LiveUSB-39755.shtml
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>> I have created my live USB Ubuntu flash drive, now to reboot and see if 
>> it works or not.
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>>
>> David King
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>>     
> Didn't work here...How did yours go ?
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> Regards
>
>  Ted Wager
>   Using Ubuntu Linux
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