usb install

[stlsaint]

Hey gang. So i have come to recently prefer usb installs over cd. So my question is how will Ultimate Edition fare in usb install. I know its based of karmic so im thinking it will be just fine but i had to double check. If this post is repetative than by all means please delete it but im just verifying what i already think. I will use usb creator off jaunty as karmic likes to act funny but again just "confirming" that i shouldnt be getting side swiped by any bugs. I will be using a 4gb usb.

[Moebius]

Hey gang. So i have come to recently prefer usb installs over cd. So my question is how will Ultimate Edition fare in usb install. I know its based of karmic so im thinking it will be just fine but i had to double check. If this post is repetative than by all means please delete it but im just verifying what i already think. I will use usb creator off jaunty as karmic likes to act funny but again just "confirming" that i shouldnt be getting side swiped by any bugs. I will be using a 4gb usb.

Hi stlsaint,
follow this link: http://www.ultimateeditionoz.com/forum/ ... stent#p416
In particular, follow after the '**Update** in the post.

Cheers.

[stlsaint]

thanks for reply...thats exactly what i intended to do...use usb creator.
Also ive been gone awhile due to work but is that post you gave me a new forum for Ultimate Edition?

[stlsaint]

nevermind i see what it is!

[Moebius]

thanks for reply...thats exactly what i intended to do...use usb creator.
Also ive been gone awhile due to work but is that post you gave me a new forum for Ultimate Edition?

Hi,
Yes it is a new forum designed to compliment this central forum - not to compete. There are others springing up - all spreading the gospel.

Cheers.

[Pierre]

on a different angle - is it possible to install to the hdd,
but put the boot files onto a pen drive?.
& boot from that ?.

[drama]

on a different angle - is it possible to install to the hdd,
but put the boot files onto a pen drive?.
& boot from that ?.

That should work. Ive never tried with my /boot partition on a different drive but i dont see why it wouldnt work. During the partitiong stage choose the manual option. Make a small partition on the pen drive. 200MB should do. Set the mount point as /boot. Check the box to make it bootable as well. Then partition you main disk as you normally would. You need at least 1 partition on that disk mounted at / you can use seperate / and /home though if that is what you normally do. Then the boot files ( grub, the kernel, then initrd image) will all get put on the pen drive and everything else will go to the hard disk. At the end of the install (step 7 i believe) select advanced. And choose your pen drive as the disk for grub. It will be sdX (with the X replaced with a letter) it may also be hdX with the X replaced by a number. I cant remember for sure. hd0 is the first disk (sda or hda). Use the fdisk program to find out the location of you pen drive. in terminal run

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sudo fdisk -l

So if fdisk shows the pendrive at sdb you would use either hd1 or sdb (second disk).