Needed fully functional [NOT 'Live'(sic)] Linux on USB stick - was [Re: Ubuntu on pendrive]

[Colin Law]

On 22 December 2011 15:52, Richard Owlett <rowlett at pcnetinc.com> wrote:
> Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 22 December 2011 14:17, Richard Owlett<rowlett at pcnetinc.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Avi Greenbury wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ghana.computeraid at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the most easy way to put ubuntu on a pendrive? Preferably
>>>>> withtout leaving windows
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Probably unetbootin[0]. When you say you want to "put ubuntu on a
>>>> pendrive", what do you then want to do with that pendrive? There's two
>>>> common similar-but-different use-cases:
>>>>
>>>> 1) A 'live USB' system. On this system, you can boot off the USB stick
>>>> into a working Ubuntu install. When you shut down, you lose any chanegs
>>>> you've made and the next time you boot off it you get a new system.
>>>>
>>>> 2) A system installed onto the USB stick, such that on boot you get an
>>>> option between your existing OS (Windows) and the Ubuntu on the USB
>>>> stick.
>>>>
>>>> Unetbootin does option 1, 2 is a bit more tricky, but quite doable if
>>>> that's what you're after.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know about OP, BUT I'd definitely like a pointer to
>>>                    _CLEAR *AND* CORRECT_
>>> instructions for a modified option 2 -- pendrive must be bootable when
>>> BIOS
>>> selects as boot device. My goal is having identical environment whether
>>> using my laptop or desktop machine.
>>
>>
>> Have a look at the instructions at
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download, select the appropriate
>> options and click Show me now.
>>
>> Come back if something is not clear.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Those seem to be instructions for (expletive deleted) "Live Install".
>
> I want a Linux installed on a USB stick that is indistinguishable from what
> would be on your hard drive if one had chosen "Install Now" on "Live CD" and
> chosen "wipe out my life's work currently on hard drive and any existing
> OS".

Does not the documents and settings will be stored in reserved extra
space setting, on the last dialog do this for you?

Colin