FULLY functional install of Ubuntu 10.10 to USB stick in a WinXP enviroment

[Paul Cartwright]

On 11/10/2010 04:18 PM, jerry wrote:
> Paul:
> I am trying to set up a persistent thumb drive following these
> instructions but the syslinux.cfg file is read only and I cannot change
> the read/write permissions in order to edit the file.
> sudo chmod 777 syslinux.cfg does not work.
> Any help appreciated.
you do not boot from the USB drive, you plub it into another working
system, then change the file..
I had no problem changing it from either windows or another linux distro..
once you create the files using unetbootin, are you saying you cannot
right then edit the file?



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Paul Cartwright
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