<html><head></head><body>Good but I wrote that I did not want to use a tool, I want to understand the process. <div class="gmail_quote">On December 13, 2014 9:48:00 AM EST, Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre class="k9mail">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/2014 08:25 PM, agents@meddatainc.com wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Although I have recently begun using Centos I now want to create a Ubuntu USB stick to use when traveling, doing so I have run into problems. The stick is a 64 Gb stick to allow for lots of persistent data on it, I created a couple of partitions but cannot get grub to work (I intentionally choose to use grub, not grub2, to gain familiarity with the older version). I followed the instructions at <a href="https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/a-better-way-to-create-a-customized-ubuntu-live-usb-drive">https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/a-better-way-to-create-a-customized-ubuntu-live-usb-drive</a> since it seemed to be low-level for me to learn the basics. I made a [...] </blockquote> You can use usb-creator-{gtk,kde} to create a bootable USB stick from downloaded Live CD image. usb-creator has an option to create persistent data partition, which is selected by default. Šarūnas <a href="http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas">math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas</a> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlSMUZgACgkQejaFVltl6E+z8gCfcDs2Uuwv4wLph1wVrV3s6UPw pg8An33tmb6eqymoFWrRU/A1QP2Ti6gD =+Div -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </pre></blockquote></div></body></html>