I've tried Unetbootin and the link provided earlier
http://lifehacker.com/245087/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-a-flash-drive,
without any success so far.
With Unetbootin, I downloaded it to my desktop and was unable to get it to
do anything. I'd click on it and nothing would happen. I tried to open it
with Archive Manager and got: Could not open "unetbootin-linux-344" Archive
type not supported. I suppose this is because it is a "bin" file, but I
don't know enough about "bin".
The I downloaded the debian specific version "unetbootin_323-1_amd64.deb"
and tried to open it with kpackage and got dependency problems. I tried
using command line and got the same dependency problems. I then tried
"apt-get -f install" and it wanted to autoremove unetbootin.
I tried the lifehacker one and got as far as partitioning the usb drive with
fdisk, but get the message "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
on /dev/sdc1, missing
codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is
found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so". When I do that I get:
[ 4069.624963] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: CN0BH1Q20YJL
[ 4069.772519] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1 proto
2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x1204
[ 4069.772535] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
[ 4075.712029] usblp0: removed
[ 4652.118082] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[ 4652.118086] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdc1.
[ 4729.928138] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[ 4729.928138] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdc1.
[37088.870809] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[37088.870814] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdc1.
This may be because I don't know how to format the usb on linux and I did it
on a windows machine and it says it is FAT32. I followed the lifehacker
instructions to make it a FAT16 (hex 6) but it doesn't seem to take.
This is getting a little complicated for me. It looks like I'm going to put
this aside till the next Linux Lab (that's the replacement for installfest,
right?).
Thank you all for your help,
Phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Beyenhof" <bbeyen...@gmail.com>
To: "Friendly list for people new to Linux" <kplug-newbie@kernel-panic.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Installation to a USB
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Carl Lowenstein
<carl.lowenst...@gmail.com> wrote:
Also take a look at Unetbootin. It will frequently but not always
make a bootable USB stick from a bootable ISO image.
The "not always" means that there are some assumptions built into the
unetbootin software which are not true for all distros.
I've used Unetbootin successfully, but using dd to copy the iso
directly to your Flash drive (not a partition on it) has worked as
well.
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