Ubuntu on a stick

[Karl F. Larsen]

Neil Cherry wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Neil Cherry wrote:
>>     
>>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>     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.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I used Unetbootin and let it download the ISO image. If you want to
>>> grab the image off the CD just:
>>>
>>> dd if=/dev/sdb of=cdimage.iso bs=4k
>>>
>>> Change the names as appropriate and that's from memory so you may need
>>> to check the man page.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>     I used the following after looking at /dev and trying one that 
>> didn't work.
>>
>> karl at karl-hardy:~/Desktop$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=ubuntu-8.10-i386.iso bs=4k
>>
>> and that I could see was working because the CD was running. It made the 
>> file and I used the file with unetbootin and put the file on my 1 GB 
>> stick. Then I tried the stick on my laptop and it worked just great. I 
>> had to choose Default.
>>
>>     So many thanks. I had forgot dd and should not have done so.
>>     
>
> You can check out the ISO with (as root or with sudo):
>
> mkdir /media/iso
> mount -r -o loop ubuntu-8.10-i386.iso /media/iso
>
> I added the -r as it's not wise to try and edit an ISO image. If
> it mounts successfully then it's most likely okay. You could also
> check the md5sum to see if it's okay.
>
>   
    Hi well I made the USB memory stick and when done I put it in my 
laptop and it booted up and ran just like the LiveCD does. It will work 
fine and the dd copy was perfect as always.


Karl


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