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

[Richard Owlett]

Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard Owlett<rowlett at pcnetinc.com>  wrote:
>>
>> Thank you all, I'm making progress.
>> I now have 10.10 on a boot-able USB flash and changes I make are
>> there the next time I boot.
>>
>> *BUT*
>> There's always a but isn't there ;/
>>
>> On startup I still get the "Welcome" (sic) screen from the "Live
>> install". The one with too VERY large icons. One is labeled "try
>> Ubuntu" and the other "install Ubuntu" (with the same ugly
>> background as the "live install" - the first thing I had changed ;)
>>
>> When I choose "try Ubuntu", I get what I want.
>>
>> Two questions:
>> 1. How do I get rid of that first screen?
>> 2. What should I be reading so I could have answered the question
>> myself? I'm guessing that there is a script somewhere that is
>> performing a function similar to autoexec.bat.
>>
> Sounds like you copied the livd CD image to your flash drive rather
> than installing Ubuntu on it....
>

I didn't intend to.
I used the screens given by going to/thru 
System>Administration>Startup Disk Creator .

I had noted however that the screens presented did not seem to 
exactly match the information I got from the associated help 
files. I figured just another case of documentation be behind 
released code.