On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Karl Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > Phil Mullane wrote: >> >> I've never been able to run linux from a USB. I have no trouble >> downloading a distro to a USB. I can open the USB and see that it is there. >> When booting I can get the computer to load from the USB. But nothing >> happens - absolutely nothing. Is this something that could be done at an >> installfest? > > I've done this, following a howto on the Internet, but it was a while ago. I > remember creating two partitions on the USB drive. The first was a small > boot partition containing grub and a kernel. The second contained the meat > of the distribution, much how a regular installation is set up. > > You might try this tutorial. It looks like something similar to what I used. > http://lifehacker.com/245087/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-a-flash-drive
Also take a look at Unetbootin. It will frequently but not always make a bootable USB stick from a bootable ISO image. The "not always" means that there are some assumptions built into the unetbootin software which are not true for all distros. <http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/> carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [email protected] -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
