Ubuntu on a stick

[Karl Larsen]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> [Charlie, sorry to attach to your reply but quote Karl, I have killfiled
> him. I won't do it again.]
>
>   
>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:39:00 -0700
>> "Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> You assume if I ask no question 
>>> the email is worthless. To you I ask? Are you so smart the use of a
>>> USB memory stick to load Ubuntu is trivial?
>>>       
>
>
> To Karl: it's pretty trivial in Ubuntu 8.10. Go to System ->
> Administration -> Create a USB startup disk. (To the best of my
> knowledge this is installed by default - ubuntu-desktop depends on this
> package, usb-creator). 
>
> I haven't used UNetbootin and judging from the website it is more
> powerful, but that is not needed to put a LiveCD onto a stick, as you
> wrote.
>
>
>   
    I am now on 8.10 and you are correct there is a thing to to do that. 
It doesn't look like what I used but it appears you can put a CD in and 
it will read it or you can specify a file.

    Will try it in a few days.

Karl