[CoLoCo] Ubuntu Install ISO to External Hard Drive?

[TC]

You're welcome.

The isotostick script is extremely useful for testing.

Bootable sticks are nice as well.  I'm working on getting an 8G stick
setup with the latest backtrack.

David Overcash wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:2600denver at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 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>
>>>> <mailto: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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