Install Ubuntu 9.04 to a USB pen drive

August 26th, 2009 by srinivas Leave a reply » 
ubuntu

Its many people wish to have an operating system to be ported to an USB drive , so that they can work any where any system and work on it and save the data .

This cool feature of ubuntu came up with the release of live usb creator , Its very much easy to create your own installation of ubuntu ported into an USB.

Live USB creator can used like a regular OS .. Any changes you make , any files or programs you install would be retained even the next time you boot the usb.

Following guide lines Steps takes you through how to install ubuntu to an usb.(Note : Recommended pen drive capacity is 2GB and entire drive should be formatter)

  • Step 1 :Insert your USB pen drive and your Ubuntu 9.04 Live CD into your computer where ubuntu is loaded .

    • NOTE : If you dont have the ubuntu live cd , you could specify the location of the ISO file of ubuntu 9.04 later on.

  • Step 2 : Go to System->Administration->USB Startup Disk Creator
  • Step 3 : USB Startup Disk Creator screen appears like this .

    • msg

    In the above screen shot the ubuntu live cd as well the usb drive has been detected

  • Step 4 :If you dont have the live cd Click on OTHER and specify the location of the ubuntu 9.04 ISO file.
  • Step 5 : Now Click on the Format button as the USB pen drive needs to be formatted .
  • Step 6 :Based on your preference you could reserve a certain amount of storage space of the pen drive for documents and settings and once this is done ,click on Make startup Disk.

    • step6

  • Step 7 : Below screen will appear after ubuntu is installed in a pen drive . Carry it any where work , save and close .

    • laststep

    Good luck !

    Related Posts with Thumbnails
    Share this Article with your friends & colleagues using the below icons
    • Digg
    • Facebook
    • StumbleUpon
    • Reddit
    • del.icio.us
    • Mixx
    • DZone
    • Google Bookmarks
    • LinkedIn
    • Print
    • email
    • RSS

    Related posts

    1. How to Install Google gccgo compiler in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
    2. Backing up and Restoring Ubuntu applications while upgrading from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
    3. How to install Titanium an Open source Adobe Air in Ubuntu
    4. RUNNING WINDOWS APPLICATION IN UBUNTU
    5. Installation guide for Novel’s Mono,Mono-develop,Xsp2 Server in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

    Posted in Windows, Mac, Linux and others

    You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.

    Advertisement

    1 comment

    Add your comment
    1. chepe263 guilleybruno.blogspot.com says:
      July 19, 2010 at 6:17 am   (Quote)

      Well, i’m using RIGHT NOW ubuntu 10.04 on my 8GB usb stick but i did it in a really diferent way. I use an virtual machine and add the usb device. When i run the Live Cd inside the virtual machine, the usb drive can be use to install ubuntu. You can also do it with you computer, just like if you were installing ubuntu with the normal installer but i recomend to unplug the Hard Disk becouse grub messed up with my laptop the last time and i was scared hehe

      Thanks!

      Reply

    Leave a Reply

    Switch to our mobile site