Once started, open up a terminal (Applications - Accessories - Terminal).Once the installation is finished, reboot your PC (this is the safest) from your LiveCD, with your USB device connected.However, when you will be restarting your system from USB, you will find out that the partition you just installed Ubuntu to cannot be mounted. Just be patient, grab a cup of coffee and come back 15 minutes later, your installation will be more or less finished by then. Select your USB device (in my case it was /dev/sdb) to install the bootloader to Įxit this screen and click on Forward in the “Ready to Install” screen, which will be shown This will open a new screen, giving you the option whether and where to install the bootloader. Be careful here: before clicking on Forward, make sure you click on the “Advanced” Button! The next screen is important - It is titled: “Ready to Install”.If there is anything to migrate from other installations on your computer (most likely not), do whatever you want, and click Forward.
Provide the required info and hit Forward The next sceen you will give your username/password information.Choose Guided - Use entire disk, selecting your USB device (this will most likely be /dev/sdb, don’t choose /dev/sdb1!) The partitioner will be started, and you will be given the choice where to install Ubuntu.Choose your Keyboard Layout and click Forward.Select your Time Zone and click Forward.Select your USB device and delete all partitions on it. Once Ubuntu is started, go to System - Administration - Partition Manager.(I didn’t take screenshots, so I will be explaining a lot about the screens… It looks like a lot of work, but trust me: it is not, and it really is easy BIOS configured to enable boot from internal HDD, CD/DVD and USB Storage device.Just one USB device (in my case a 250GB harddisk.My computer (Dell D820 laptop) has 1 internal disk, devided into 3 partitions (dell utility - windows - Ubuntu 8.04).I found a way of doing it in a much simpler way… without creating the separate partition to store the LiveCD:Ī couple of assumptions to take into account when going through this manual: Together with a colleague of mine, I decided to figure out whether there could be an easier way to install Ubuntu on a USB device. Besides, having to prepare your USB device, creating a separate partition on it which will be more or less “useless” after the installation, giving up 750MB of space? I was reading How to install Ubuntu Linux from USB Stick posted on this site a while ago, and found it to be quite some work to get Ubuntu working on a USB stick. Hi, as Sanderj stated Persistence is the space where you save your Docs, whatever, the max usage space on your list is 4GB, and that is all Fat 32 will allow, so your 32 GB is wasted, but try this tutorial from UbuntuGeek:.
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