Comments on: Ubuntu Feisty on your USB drive - finally!

By: technology

technology — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:32:27 +0000

I internal issue there is still install ubuntu in my PC,

By: GermanShepherd's Lair - Journal » Blog Archive » On Harddrives

GermanShepherd's Lair - Journal » Blog Archive » On Harddrives — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:18:35 +0000

[...] The walkthrough I used was from this site. I’d used a bunch of other sites, but they were all variations on this, and when I actually followed the instructions for this walkthrough, everything worked flawlessly. Unfortunately, it requires an existing installation of Linux. Fortunately, this means it can also be a LiveCD. Unfortunately, if you’re wanting to use a USB drive to omit the CD, you’re still going to use one. Fortunately, I had the previous version of Ubuntu and I was able to use that with minimal work. If you’re interested, check out that link. If, for some reason, 30 years from now, you visit this page and the link is down, ask me for it, because I saved it to my harddrive. If I no longer have it, chances are great that this method of installation is no longer used and nobody needs it anymore! [...]

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:10:13 +0000

@Alredo - sorry, wouldn’t know how to help. I recommend you to try following a tutorial on how to use the latest version of Ubuntu.

By: Alfredo Rubio

Alfredo Rubio — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:40:12 +0000

We have tried the whole procedure but it fails at the booting.

it always show a message that said unable to find casper/.vml.

Whats the problem here.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:32:38 +0000

Always happy to help

By: OptimusPrime

OptimusPrime — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:51:59 +0000

That worked…thank you very much.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:28:27 +0000

Ah! You selected Quit :). You have to select “Write” and then quit

By: OptimusPrime

OptimusPrime — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:15:49 +0000

Yes, my screen is almost exactly the same as yours. Once I enter the cfdisk command, I can type ‘b’ to make the partition bootable and then ‘q’ to quit. But when I execute cfdisk again, the boot flag is not set for the FAT16 partition even though I just went in and did it. I am assuming both USB partition should be unmounted when I change the boot flag. Thank you.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:44:21 +0000

Hmm, OK, so that’s not the problem. If it’s there in the menu, I suppose your computer is capable of booting from USB too.

I’ve made a screenshot of what cfdisk says for my USB drive. Did it show the “Boot” flag for you like it does for me?

By: OptimusPrime

OptimusPrime — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:33:33 +0000

Vincent, thanks for getting back to me so soon. I have entered my Setup menu with F2 and changed the boot order to boot from USB first, then a CD, and lastly my hard drive. Since it does not recognize my USB, it is going straight to my hard drive. I will check to see if the USB boots on another computer. Do you think using a Dell laptop should be able to boot from USB. I have been trying it on a Dell Precision 370 desktop (old I know). Thanks again.