Actually with the advent of intrepid Ibex, and I believe Hardy Heron too, there is a menu option under System -> Administration that says create USB startup disk. You choose your iso and choose how much of the usb stick u want to use for the OS, and hit create startup disk... dont think it could be simpler...
David Van Assche On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Caroline Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok! I got this to work. thank you Ubuntu developers but talk about screwing > in your own seat! > > Is there an easier way to help people create USBs? On SLAX we created a zip > file then there was a boot file (2 versions actually one for linux and one > for windows) that is run to make the stick bootable: > http://schoolkey.net/wiki/creating-keys > > Is there a way I can I copy my USB and make the new one bootable so I don't > have to go through the whole process again? > > The USB boots up to Sugar, which is what I want. Is there a way for me to > also access the underlying Ubuntu? > > > > Here is my feedback on making the existing directions more friendly. > > Download the stock ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso and burn it > > Yup, I can do this. > > Boot from this CD and from there, use LiveUSB to copy the system to USB > stick (use a stick with 1-2 GB capacity as problems have been reported with > larger ones) > > Ok so when you follow this link you eventually end up at this page. > http://ppa.launchpad.net/probono/ubuntu/pool/main/l/liveusb/ > > Please provide instructions on exactly what to download. I picked > liveusb_0.1.1_all.deb > Then also provide instructions on exactly what the user should do to install > it. I fumbled around and eventually it opened, but I couldn't actually tell > someone else how to do it. > Then provide instruction on exactly which options to set. I picked both > persistence and flash and the flash ended up giving me an error. > > If you use the persistence option, you need to replace casper/initrd.gz on > the stick with the bugfixed initrd.gz provided here. > > The Casper direction is write protected. Please provide instructions on how > to deal with that. > What is this? Why am I doing it? > > Add the file sugar.squashfs to the directory casper/ on the USB stick > > Again the write protection on Casper made this more of a challenge then > might be expected. > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:19 AM, David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> It looks like our friends at Ubuntu have been hard at work building a >> Subuntu live usb. Simon Peter, also know as probono, has posted information >> on downloading and building the usb at >> >> http://dev.laptop.org/~probono/sbuntu/ >> >> Thanks to the Ubuntu SugarTeam for packaging Sugar on Ubuntu and to >> Probono for building the sugar.squashfs. >> >> David >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar mailing list >> Sugar@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar >> > > > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar