Installing Ubuntu from flash drive

[Markus Schönhaber]

19.08.2010 20:27, Earl Melton:

> has problems as I've tried twice and it never fully boots to the live CD. I 
> think I have read about creating an install from a USB drive, but had no need 
> for it until now. If this is possible, can someone give me the step-by-step 
> procedure for doing it?

Besides the already mentioned unetbootin, there's pendrivelinux. I have
never used either and therefore can't recommend one over the other, but
since the Ubuntu Netbook page
http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook/get-ubuntu/download
describes creating the USB drive with pendrivelinux, I thought it's
worth mentioning here:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

> Does it take a [special] flash drive, or will any do?

Nothing special is required apart from having enough capacity. 1 GB
should be more than enough.
In fact, the pendrivelinux website lists 2 GB+ as a requirement. Maybe
they're uncompressing stuff from the CD image?

> I 
> assume I would need to tell the BIOS to look for a bootable thumb drive?

Of course, your machine must be able to boot from USB. Otherwise,
putting the image on the thumb drive would be pretty pointless.

-- 
Regards
  mks