How do I install Ubuntu using a thumb drive?

[Victor Padro]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Eshwar Varanasi <vreswar at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Users,
>
>    I'm a new bee, looking for a dual boot from microsoft xp os with ubuntu
> which i got free from digit magazine few months earlier. I'm stuck at a
> point where i had to provide partitions for my disk, i have 300gb hdd.
> almost divided into 20, 60,60,60,80,10 space drives. I want to use the last
> 10gb unallocated space for ubuntu,but in the installation it shows disk
> partition as
> as /dev/root then /dev/spa1 for 20gb /dev/spa2 for 60.../dev/spa6 for 10
> gb. but I had very important stuff in my hdd, so couldnt risk.
>
> Can you guys guide me how to install ubuntu in that 10gb unallocated disk
> space without loosing my 290gb hdd data.
>
> -Eshwar
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:07 AM, David Widder <daveco-inc at hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  When you start up your computer, there are usually a few commands, like
>> press F12 for setup, but they could be the Delete or F2 keys also. in that
>> menu, there will be some place that says "boot order" and arange them so USB
>> is above HD or hard drive. save, exit and reboot.
>>
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>> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:03:56 -0700
>> From: cy41169 at yahoo.com
>> Subject: How do I install Ubuntu using a thumb drive?
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>> Hi again...
>> I had asked earlier how to install Ubuntu using a thumb drive and got a
>> response saying I needed to be more detailed. I first tried using Unetbootin
>> to transfer Ubuntu 8.10 onto a 2 gigabyte thumb drive. Unetbootin requires
>> broadband internet so I took my netbook to a coffee shop and used their
>> wifi. After Ubuntu had finished downloading I checked to see if Ubuntu was
>> on the thumb drive and it was so I rebooted my computer. When my computer
>> started up Windows came up running. My computer didn't go into Ubuntu live
>> mode. The second method was to run a cd in live mode and then in the menu
>> selected make a USB startup disk. After the transfer was complete I put the
>> thumb drive in my USB port of my netbook and again it went straight into
>> Windows without going into Ubuntu. I finally purchased a thumb drive with
>> Ubuntu 8.10 and the results were the same. I have an Inspiration netbook.
>> Please let me know if I need to include anymore information. Thank you.
>> Charlie
>>
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