--- On Tue, 5/5/09, Alexander Panganiban Santiago <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am booting from a thumbdrive which I usually do with > previous versions of Ubuntu. > I have already tried unetbootin on Jaunty and the Create > USB Boot inside Jaunty. > I always end up on a BusyBox "intramfs " prompt... I use the following steps when creating a USB thumbdrive from the Ubuntu iso desktop installer. 1. Download the latest version of unetbootin from sourceforge.net and install it as /usr/local/bin/unetbootin. If you try running the program you may be asked to download other stuff needed by unetbootin, like p7zip, and others. 2. Make sure you have the iso installer for Jaunty, namely ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso 3. Insert the USB thumbdrive (1GB size is enough) in the USB port, unmount it, and format it, say, as follows: umount /media/whatever mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n Jaunty /dev/sdb1 If the thumbdrive is a fresh one, you might need to fdisk it first, before doing the mkfs. 4. Reinsert the newly formatted USB thumbdrive, so that the system mounts it. 5. Now run unetbootin as root: sudo unetbootin Then select the ubuntu iso as source, and the USB thumbdrive in /dev/sdb1 as destination. Then just wait for unetbootin to finish. This might take a while (a few minutes). 6. You can now use this USB thumbdrive to install Jaunty on another computer. Pablo Manalastas *** _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
