Install Kubuntu 9.10 to a Flash Drive from Windows

How to Create a Kubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive from Windows:  Kubuntu is a product of Canonical Ltd that features the KDE desktop environment. In the following tutorial, we show you how we installed Kubuntu 9.10 to a USB Flash Drive using a Windows PC and our custom script to perform the install. Once finished, Kubuntu 9.10 can be booted and run directly from your portable device. This process uses the casper-rw loopback image file to allow you to persistently save changes and restore those changes on subsequent boots.

Desktop Screenshot of Kubuntu 9.10

Distribution Home Page: Kubuntu.org

Minimum Flash Drive Capacity: 2GB

Persistent Feature: Yes

Kubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive Creation Essentials

• Windows PC to perform conversion
• Kuuntu 9.10 ISO
  
• 2GB or larger USB flash drive (fat32 formatted)
• USB-Installer-for-Kubuntu.exe (contains the files to do the conversion)

Kubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive Creation from Windows

Update 12/24/09: Fixed initrd naming during the install so that System updates continue to work.

1. Download this torrent and proceed to download Kubuntu 9.10 ISO using your favorite torrent client
2. Download and launch our third party USB-Installer-for-Kubuntu.exe and follow the onscreen instructions
3. Once the script has finished, restart your PC and set your BIOS or Boot Menu to boot from the USB device, save your changes and reboot

If all goes well, you should now be booting from your own Kubuntu Portable Live USB that allows you to persistently save most of your changes and restore them at each boot.

Persistent size: The default casper-rw loop file that becomes the partition for saving changes is only 1GB.

Update: The Casper-RW Creator now merged into USB Installer, allows you to create a 1GB to 4GB casper-rw file.

However, If you prefer to resize your casper-rw disk block image file and use more USB storage space for saving changes post install, you can resize casper-rw from Windows or resize casper-rw using Linux

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