[CoLoCo] Ubuntu Install ISO to External Hard Drive?

[David Overcash]

Hey that's an awesome how-to...  thanks for the link I'm definitely
bookmarking it.

-David

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:

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> TC wrote:
> > This is how I set up my pendrives.
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
> >
> > Ringo Kamens wrote:
> >> Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com
> >>> <mailto:2600denver at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >>>     I have a friend whose version of XP broke and I convinced him to
> switch
> >>>     to Ubuntu after this most recent crash. The problem is that his
> laptop's
> >>>     CD drive is totally ruined and as a result, I can't boot from the
> Ubuntu
> >>>     CD. I have all the ISOs on my computer, is there a way I can copy
> the
> >>>     data from them onto a partition on my external hard drive and boot
> from
> >>>     that? Any help would be appreciated, as I have to figure this out
> by
> >>>     tomorrow. An Ubuntu install is on the line ; )
> >>
> >>> I've never tried this but I think one approach would be to make a live
> >>> flash drive (http://www.pendrivelinux.com/) and then boot it and
> install
> >>> that way. One of my students last year put backtrack on a flash drive
> >>> and used it for a while. I know I've seen other discussions about this
> >>> too but I can't remember where. There may be a page on the wiki. The
> >>> other thing is that the computer will need to have the capability to
> >>> boot from usb. If it's newer it probably does. With dell press f12 to
> >>> see the boot options. Other computers will have a similar option.
> >>> --
> >>> Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)
> >>> ----
> >>> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> >>> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> >> I googled around for solutions before posting here and pendrivelinux did
> >> come up. The problem is that if I make a pen drive from my machine, it
> >> will be set up for my hardware, might have my logs or files or who knows
> >> what,  and then his computer might not work. Perhaps I'm
> >> mis-understanding the way it works? I thought I might just be able to
> do:
> >> $dd if=/file/ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdb1
> >> but that didn't work because it wouldn't boot (all the files were there!
> >> and the boot flag was set!). Is there something obvious I'm missing like
> >> an MBR on the external hard drive? If so, is that jus a partition thing
> >> or do I need to use the whole hard drive?
> >> Thanks for your help,
> >> CRK
> >>
> >
> Thanks so much! I ended up doing the usbtostick.sh from the link to the
> Wiki you gave me and it worked perfectly! I didn't even have to use the
> whole drive, I just used the first partition on it. YOU ROCK!
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