Installing to a USB Drive without a HD and not making it a "live CD".

[Knapp]

Hello,  I have a computer with a dead HD. I can boot it with the live
Xubuntu CD (other don't work, to big). I can make the USB 8mb drive
into a copy of the CD and boot it just fine but when I try to install
to the USB Drive, the computer will not boot. How do I make the
computer boot from the USB drive as if it were a HD with a normal
install on it? I hope this is clear. Maybe I need to make my own
bootalble ISO with the files I need? For example an ISO with all the
updates? Don't know how to do that ether. In any case I have a
complete system installed to the USB; if only I could get it to boot.
Thanks all.

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Douglas E Knapp

Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project.
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