Usb Install
This spec is for a USB ubuntu installer. I am aware that it is possible to copy the contents of the alternate CD to a USB stick and use syslinux to make it bootable, but this is too tricky for most users.
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Not only booting a liveUSB should be possible, but running (k)ubuntu from a USB drive (flash or HDD), preferably without modifications. Maybe a few modifications to the installation ISO, coupled with a ' install to USB' utility (available to *nix AND Windows) which would just copy the entire .ISO contents to the selected drive.
---Brazillian Joe
I think a simple shell script would get this done fairly well (although it wouldn't be very pretty, a graphical program would be better. Here's some pseudo-code:
Ask user for either a mountpoint, an entire device or a partition;
If it is an entire device, chack that it is big enough, and if it is, partition it so that there is a FAT16 partition filling it completely. Mount it.
Else if it is a single partition, simply format it in FAT16. Mount it.
Else if it is a mountpoint, delete all files.
End if.
Extract a tar.bz2 (or 7z, for better compression) archive to the mount point. This archive should be a modified CD filesystem.
Syslinux it.
---Alec Wright (Alecjw)
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