1st post. Hi everyone! I don't have a mac, but am running a hackintosh. I've also been running my installations off a fat32 thumb drive with grub2. Finally to make things more complicated to install ubuntu, I also use LVM.
A few things I've learned, 1) kernel switch "iso-scan/filename=thumbdrivedir/quanta-desktop-i386.iso" 2) alternate iso does not support the above switch but there is a workaround 3) grub2 supports efi & gpt partitions so if you want to install & boot from a thumb drive then you should be able to. say you have grub installed on your thumb drive. try: set root=(hd0,1) linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0.6-generic ro root=/dev/sdb1 initrd /boot/initrd-3.5.0.6-generic On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Ron Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm still attempting to find a way of installing Lubuntu AMD64+Mac to an > external USB drive. There are all sorts of posts on the net dealing with > efi and the issues associated with OS X Lion. To complicate things, as > mentioned in a previous message, I have Bootcamp installed on my MacBook > and through it, Windows 8 pre-release. > > I'm reluctant to touch my internal hard drive, hence the idea of using an > external USB drive for testing Lubuntu. However I've yet to find a way to > make that work. > > A question. > > There is WUBI, which I've tried. The installation to my external USB drive > appeared to go ok, but failed to boot on completion. > > I noticed that WUBI wanted to download a Lubuntu image from the net before > installing, even though I already had the latest disk present in my DVD-Rom > drive. Any reason for that? > > Cheers > Ron Mitchell > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- sent through the cloud via a nexus
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