Hi, Tom!
The first time I did this, I used the unetbootin tool, with commandline
options. This put the system onto the flash drive, as if I'd gone
through Ubiquity, and started a Unity-3d session, on boot-up,which did
not work well. Attempts to change the desktop to Unity-2d, by editing a
file in /var/lib/AccountsService/users/ubuntu resulted in a system that
would not bring up any kind of desktop. As a result of some discussions
on this list, here's what I ended up doing.
Keep in mind, I was already using Trisquel 5.5 beta. If using any
ubuntu-style desktop Linux, this will work.
1) insert flash drive;
If nautilus window, showing contents show up, note the volume's name,
and close window;
3) open a terminal;
4) sudo -i;
5) enter password for sudo;
6) umount /media/drive-name;
7) dd if=/path-to-iso-file of=/dev/sdb bs=1M;
(this assumes your flash is /dev/sdb, adjust accordingly)
8) when dd command finishes, make sure bits-in and bites-written are equal;
9)exit;
10) close terminal.
If you want persistence:
with flash drive inserted and unmounted, open disk utility or gparted,
on your flash drive, you should see one bootable partition the size of
the iso file, and the rest of the space as unallocated. Make a new
partition of type 'ext3', and call it casper-rw; this is your persistent
storage.
HTH,
Dave
On 04/13/2012 11:59 AM, Tom Masterson wrote:
On the stuff I have found on the web it says to use usb-creator to
create the flash drive. As I recall that particular package is not very
usable. Is there another way to create a usb stick to try precise?
Thanks
Tom
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