Install Ubuntu 8.10 to a Flash Drive from the Live CD
Create a Ubuntu 8.10 Persistent flash drive using the Live CD. This tutorial will enable a user to install Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex to a USB flash drive while booted from the Live CD. In addition the persistence or casper persistent feature (via a separate partition) will be utilized to automatically save changes back to the thumb drive as you work, and then restore those saved changes upon subsequent boots.
Please Note: The following tutorial utilizes a separate ext casper-rw partition instead of a loop file. The process enables the user to have a partition that is larger than the 4GB fat32 file size limit for saving and restoring changes.
A very nice USB Installer is now included on the Ubuntu 8.10 CD, Please use this > USB Ubuntu 8.10 Flash drive installer instead (If your USB Stick is 4GB or Less)
Ubuntu 8.10 USB installation essentials
- Working CD Drive and an Ubuntu 8.10 CD
- Established internet connection
- 1GB or larger USB flash drive (2GB or larger for script installations)
Create Ubuntu 8.10 flash drive automatically
With this method, you must use a 2GB or larger thumb drive.
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- Download the Ubuntu 8.10 ISO and burn it to a CD
- Restart your computer, booting from the Live CD
- Insert a 2GB or larger USB flash drive
- Open a terminal and type the following into the terminal window:
wget pendrivelinux.com/downloads/u810/u810.sh
chmod +x u810.sh && sh u810.sh
- Follow the onscreen instructions
- Once the script has finished, reboot your computer and set your BIOS or boot menu to boot from the USB device
Create Ubuntu 8.10 flash drive manually
- Download the Ubuntu 8.10 ISO and burn it to a CD
- Restart your computer and boot from the Ubuntu Live CD
- Insert a 1GB or larger USB flash drive
- Open a terminal window and type sudo su
- Now type fdisk -l to list available drives/partitions (note which device is your flash drive Example: /dev/sdb). Throughout this tutorial, replace all instances of x with your flash drive letter. For example, if your flash drive is sdb, replace x with b.
- Type umount /dev/sdx1
- Type fdisk /dev/sdx
- type p to show the existing partition and d to delete it
- type p again to show any remaining partitions (if partitions exist, repeat the previous step)
- type n to make a new partition
- type p for primary partition
- type 1 to make this the first partition
- hit enter to use the default 1st cylinder
- type +750M to set the partition size
- type a to make this partition active
- type 1 to select partition 1
- type t to change the partition filesystem
- type 6 to select the fat16 file system
- type n to make another new partition
- type p for primary partition
- type 2 to make this the second partition
- hit enter to use the default cylinder
- hit enter again to use the default last cylinder
- type w to write the new partition table
- Type umount /dev/sdx1 to unmount the partition
- Type mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n ubuntu810 /dev/sdx1 to format the first partition
- Type umount /dev/sdx2 to ensure the partition is unmounted
- Type mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdx2 to format the second partition
- Remove and re-insert your flash drive (if prompted that a new medium has been detected, select to open in a new window and click ok)
- Back at the terminal, type sudo apt-get install syslinux mtools
- Type syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1
- Type cd /cdrom
- Type cp -rfv casper dists install pics pool preseed .disk isolinux/* md5sum.txt README.diskdefines install/mt86plus /media/ubuntu810
- Type cd /media/ubuntu810
- Type cp isolinux.cfg syslinux.cfg
- Type rm text.cfg
- Type wget pendrivelinux.com/downloads/u810/text.cfg
- Reboot your computer and set your system BIOS boot priority to boot from the USB stick
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Install Ubuntu 8.10 to a Flash Drive from the Live CD published under Old USB installs from Linux/CD
