Install Ubuntu 9.10 to a Flash Drive from Windows

Create a Ubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive from Windows: In the following tutorial, we show you how we installed Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), a product of Canonical Ltd to a USB Flash Drive using a Windows PC to perform the install.  Upon completion, Ubuntu 9.10 can be natively booted and then run directly from your portable device. Note that this installation process does utilize the casper-rw loopback image file for persistently saving and restoring changes on subsequent boots.

Desktop Screenshot of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Distribution Home Page: ubuntu.com

Minimum Flash Drive Capacity: 2GB

Persistent Feature: Yes

Ubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive Creation Essentials

• Windows PC to perform conversion
• Ubuntu 9.10 ISO
  
• 2GB or larger USB flash drive (fat32 formatted)
• Universal USB Installer (does the conversion)

Ubuntu 9.10 Live USB Flash Drive Creation tutorial

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 Ubuntu 9.10 ISO using your favorite torrent client
2. Download and launch our Universal USB Installer, select Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop i386 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 personal Live Ubuntu 9.10 USB that allows you to save most of your changes persistently.

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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