Ubuntu on a stick

[Karl F. Larsen]

Neil Cherry wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Albert Charron wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>>>> Albert Charron wrote:
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>>>>>> And again, what was the technical question???
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>>        snip
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>>     I can't solve this problem. Since you all are experts this simple 
>> problem should cause no problem. I did Google it too.
>>
>>     I have the software working well if the software your loading to the 
>> USB memory stick is on your hard drive or your willing to wait several 
>> hours for the software to d/l the desired software package from the 
>> Ubuntu server it works.
>>
>>     My QUESTION is: How do you put the software on a cd-rom on the USB 
>> stick? I have tried /media/cdrom0 and even got it to put one folder on 
>> the stick. But can find no way to put the entire LiveCD-Rom on the 
>> stick. Do you need to strip it off the CD to your hard drive?
>>     
>
> Ah, a question!
>
> The short of it (lacks exact details, I can post them to the list
> but I'm hoping this is enough):
>
> Here's what I did, I downloaded the ISO image to my PC (I'm guessing
> you can let Unetbootin do this for you), then using Unetbootin told it
> to install the image onto my preformatted USB stick (2G). You then
> need to unmount the stick. Set the boot flag using fdisk or parted.
>
> I was then able to create a bootable USB stick. Oh you don't need to
> reboot when Unetbootin asks if you are using the stick on another
> machine.
>
> Now having said that, I can't get use the stick to load Ubuntu (Server)
> on a second machine. There is a problem in that the image doesn't have
> the ext2 or ext3 drives, it does have vfat and ISO. When I tried to
> load using vfat I found that because of a few links parts of the image
> didn't copy. Once I fixed that I found that there is a restricted driver
> that doesn't work (grr). I'll work on this as it could be a bad image
> or something else.
>
>   
    Well the info you send says I need to take the .iso image off of the 
CD-Rom it is on and put it on the hard drive. Is this correct? All the 
Google things are in another language.



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