Install Ubuntu via USB

December 31, 2008 @ 7:14 am · Filed under Linux

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I tried several methods last night including Unetbootin, and this is the one that worked best.

Basically copy the ISO on the USB root directory, add vmlinuz and initrd.gz from main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/. Then add syslinux.cfg with:

default vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.gz

If you have boot problems you might also need to run install-mbr /dev/sda from the mbr package.

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