Revision of Boot from usb drive from Mon, 05/12/2008 - 12:35
Submitted by andrew on Sat, 10/20/2007 - 21:14.
**Revised and clarified, 2008/05/12**
Here is the procedure for Ubuntu:
1- Make the USB flash drive bootable using SYSLINUX.
sudo apt-get install syslinux
syslinux /dev/sda1 (assuming the device is sda1 - Use the correct device name!)2- Obtain the Ubuntu-Rescue-Remix disk (or just mount the iso as a loop filesystem) and copy the contents of the CD to your flash drive.mkdir mnt
sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-remix-804.iso mnt
(Copy everything, including hidden files in the mnt folder to your usb drive.)
3- Move all the contents of the isolinux folder on the usb drive to the root directory of the usb drive.
4- Rename the file isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
5- Boot the computer from your USB flash drive.
That's it!
(ref http://wiki.debian.org/BootUsb and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick)