Ubuntu USB installation
Hello people,
There is less than one day until new Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx will be released. We are all biting nails and on tomorrow we will have it! :) Most of us will make clean install on our machines. I know that upgrade is easier thing to do but upgrade can often make other complications.
I know that lot of you, like myself, use CD/DVD to install your new Ubuntu. Pay attention that CD/DVD should be new and good quality. Try to avoid old CD/DVD and also RW which you were using quite often. Do not save money on quality disk because bad disk and bad copy can create you problems for which you will hate Ubuntu and still it is not Ubuntu's fault.
From 9.10 i changed my habit and now i am installing Ubuntu from USB flash. It is very easy to create and installation takes only about 2-3 minutes (in this time updating is excluded). There is a simple but nice tool in Ubuntu called Startup Disk Creator and in Kubuntu it's name is USB Startup Disk Creator.
You simply need to add .iso file, connect your USB device, format it and click Make startup disk! After a few minutes you will have USB flash ready to be booted.
If you want only to install from USB flash and also if you have lower capacity USB pick option "Discarded on shutdown, unless you save then elsewhere".
If you have higher capacity USB and you want to have usable Live OS where you can modify, add, remove programs and work pick option "Stored in reserved extra space" and add some volume. Default is 128MB.
And that is pretty much it. Reboot your system. Pick in booting options USB and in a less than a minute you will see your Live Ubuntu. Like is said installation from usb flash takes just a couple minutes and it is much more safer than installation from CD/DVD and plus it is eco-friendly. :)
From my previous experience Ubuntu will be on servers something about 3pm in GMT or something about 9am in east coast USA time.
Celebrate tomorrow :)
Enjoy and take care,
On 9.10 I made a portable install of 10.04 (from ISO) on the 3.7GB pendrive and all my files were stored in reserved extra space.
On 10.04 I cannot do this on this very same pendrive because "Stored in reserved extra space" is inactive (grey/unclickable) and shows there will be 0.00 MB of reserved space. How to change this?
That is Kubuntu or Ubuntu?
There's a glitch in 10.04 Startup Disk Creator: the ISO source image you selected last time might be listed and you might be able to select the output device and click "Make Startup Disk" but that's only because ISO file you selected lies in the same place on your hard drive/etc. That's the glitch because according to Disk Creator source code the list of ISO images should be empty.
Selected ISO image becomes an active data source in the moment of selection so you have to click "Other..." and select the file manually regardless of whether it's listed or not. After you select the source all other options will become active including "Stored in reserved extra space".
I have experienced this issue on Ubuntu. But I don't think it's relevant.
Well i am not sure what is going on but i can tell you that in Kubuntu 9.10 i had problem with formating usb stick and even adding ISO file. Not sure what is going on but generally i didn't notice that people had this problem.
I noticed this problem on my flash after a friend of mine was messing something with come program for encryption. Maybe that was coincidence but maybe not.
I experienced the same problem on ubuntu 10.04 with 4GB usb stick. But it worked fine then I moved my ISO file to different folder and started creator again. Source image disc list is empty then and when I selected ISO from new location 'store in reserved extra space' become active. Can anyone confirm?
Consider this confirmed.