UNetbootin - Homepage and Downloads. PPA for probono. Ubuntu Live USB. Downloaded Ubuntu iso? Don't have a CD and you don't want to waste that precious DVD? Well, use your USB pen drive. Better of all, use an old 1GB pen drive and promote Ubuntu to your friends and keep as your rescue pen drive.Follow the following tutorial: 1. UnetbootinFirst of all, format your pen drive into FAT32 (usually most of them are formatted into FAT32.)Partition them if you have a bigger size of pen drive or you don't have to as it will not overwrite your files so you could always place your files in a folder such as My Doc. So if you want to delete your iso on pen drive delete the rest of the files except My Doc. And reboot with your pendrive plugged in.
*Make sure your bios is set to boot from USB*It can be also used to create other Linux Live USB. 2. uSbuntu Live Creator This is a cool USB Live Creator for Windows. Download now here. *Make sure your bios is set to boot from USB 3. 4. Download it here. Ubuntu Live USB - Edoceo, Inc. How to make a USB flash drive function as a Ubuntu (or Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu) Live CD. The base file system is ext3, it boots using extlinux and supports the same hardware as the Live CD. Instructions on how to update the Live CD and modify it's contents are also given. For the entire document /dev/sda is the USB device. Introduction Booting from a USB device is ofter faster than from CD and USB drives are easier to carry. You should know why you want and or need this. We used Kubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn as our image for booting and a Gentoo system for building on. Making the LiveUSB Download a copy of the latest Ubuntu ISO, at this time Feisty, store that ISO some place.
Re-partition and format the USB drive. Cfdisk /dev/sda mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1 mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda2 Mount up the fresh partition and the ISO image. There is no need to copy the isolinux informations as extlinux will be used. cd / mkdir /mnt/usb_disc/extlinux extlinux -i /mnt/usb_disc/extlinux Modifying or Updating the Image. The ubuntu liveusb creator!!! [ Screenshot | Download | Issues | Author ] This is a tool to create a bootable Live USB stick from the running Ubuntu Live CD. It was made in response to Ubuntu Brainstorm idea #16. It performs the following actions: Detects available USB sticks (using HAL) and asks user which one to usePartitions USB stick with 1 partitionSets partition bootableWrites MBR to USB stickFormats partition FAT16Installs bootloader (syslinux) to partitionWrites bootloader configuration fileCopies necessary files from running Live CD to USB stickSets language and keyboard of USB Live system to match running Live CDOptionally: Downloads and integrates Adobe Flash Player Screenshot Download Install the deb only when running from the Live CD.
Known issues Please see the bug tracker. Author Simon Peter. Liveusb site. Live usb install. Create a Ubuntu 8.04.3 Persistent USB Flash Drive via the Live CD. This tutorial will enable a user to install Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron to a USB flash drive via a running Ubuntu 8 Live CD. The process is similar to the Live CD install via Windows with the exception that you will be performing the process entirely from Ubuntu. This process uses a few less steps, thus could be performed in less time. In addition the persistence feature is being used to save and restore changes on subsequent boots. Update: Some have reported that the persistence feature has become broken again with the latest updates to Ubuntu 8.04.3.
You may want to use the Ubuntu 8.10 persistent flash drive installation tutorial instead. Essentials for Ubuntu 8.04.3 USB installation: Working CD Drive and an Ubuntu 8.04.1 CDEstablished internet connection1GB or larger USB flash drive How to install Ubuntu 8.04.3 to a USB flash drive: *Ubuntu is a product of Canonical Ltd.