Are there any normal options for installing Ubuntu on a USB flash drive?

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And this way and that I try to put Ubuntu on a USB flash drive, it doesn’t work normally. There is an option to make a live USB installation flash drive, where updates are not installed, which every time offers to install on the disk, but which Windows sees because of FAT32. And there is an option to make a full installation on a USB flash drive, formatting it into a Unix file system, which makes the flash drive itself feel bad and Windows does not see it. Is it possible to do something normally, not according to Unix, but humanly, so that the system is already installed and working, and does not offer itself to “try”, updates were installed, but the flash drive would be in FAT32 format? And ideally, it would also store the changes somewhere in memory, and throw them off to the flash only when rebooting.

Answer 1

You can - install it on a USB flash drive as a live USB, BUT at the same time creating a large (giga 4) "Persistant file" using one of the following programs:
1) UNetbootin - unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
2) Usb-creator - hacktolive.org/wiki /Usb-creator
3) Universal USB Installer - www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/
this will not lose the ability to install Linux from a flash drive as well as from a liveCD, but at the same time everything downloaded / edited documents / files will be saved in home, and programs will be updated / installed

Answer 2

It may be possible to install ubuntu on a USB flash drive via wubi.

Answer 3

You make 2 partitions: the first is FAT32, the second is ext4. And then we look at the manuals for managing mount options (noatime, barrier and friends, do not forget to mount none in / tmp).
You can also make 1 NTFS partition, and it already has an ext4 image file with ubuntu (create it using dd, copying it from the partition with the installed-updated-configured system in order to minimize work with a slow device).