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sinkot2012-07-05 17:51:59
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sinkot, 2012-07-05 17:51:59

How to install Ubuntu 12.04 from USB flash?

The problem, in fact, is this:
I went through several distributions, including mint. When I try to boot from a flash drive, I get:
"SYSLINUX 4.06 EDD 4.06-pre1 Copyright © 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al", a blinking cursor, and no keyboard response.
I also tried a lot of tools to create a bootable USB flash drive.
Note: Pavillion dv6-6030er.
Flash drive: Silicon Power 32Gb.

Who faced, help, please.

PS The drive is not working.

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Roler, 2012-07-05
@Roler

Have you tried unetbootin?

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Aldorr, 2012-07-05
@Aldorr

Mint was normally installed for me after creating a bootable USB flash drive using UNetBootIn, and Ubuntu (any) using the Universal USB Installer

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HeadTek, 2012-07-05
@HeadTek

Recently I made a bootable flash drive (Corsair Flash Voyager 4GB) according to the official guide. Got it on the first try. Maybe you have a problem with a flash drive, BIOS or hardware?

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Oleg Karnaukhov, 2012-07-06
@BupycNet

You can boot from the virtual machine as suggested to connect a USB flash drive there and do so

grub-install /dev/sdb1 --root-directory=/mnt

Where / dev / sdb1 is the device of the flash drive and / mnt is where it is mounted, you will have something like / media / ****
Then do
gedit /media/****/grub/grub.cfg

You prescribe there
menuentry "ubuntu live-cd" {
loopback        loop (hd0,0)/boot/ubuntu.iso
linux   (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/boot/ubuntu.iso
initrd  (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
}

Where (hd0,0)/boot/ubuntu.iso is the address to the ubuntu image.
In theory, it is possible without a virtual machine, you need to find something like grub4dos so that you can load from ISO.
One of the advantages of this method is that you can use several images on a USB flash drive and store everything in the boot folder. At the same time, the flash drive itself is operational. One drawback - during installation, it says that you need to unmount / dev / sdb - you need to press no. Because this is the flash drive with which we work. And everything is set up just fine.

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ur3ckr, 2012-07-05
@ur3ckr

Here is an article on how to install debian from a flash drive or Here's about ubuntu

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Nikolai Vasilchuk, 2012-07-05
@Anonym

Boot ubuntu from a Live CD (possible in a virtual machine). There is a native utility for creating a boot / installation flash drive. I succeeded only with her, nothing worked with the "tools".

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Zoom_spb, 2012-07-05
@Zoom_spb

um, maybe I forgot something, but it seems that you can write an image to a USB flash drive via UltraISO in usb-HDD + mode and it should work, but I could be wrong

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DROS, 2012-07-05
@DROS

I usually use this method. It works in 95% of cases (do not look at what ERD is talking about)
www.cyberforum.ru/windows/thread431517.html

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oia, 2012-07-05
@oia

I make this LinuxLive USB Creator program quite simple, and it works

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eaa, 2012-07-06
@eaa

On my laptop there was a problem with large flash drives, it was written in the dock that it was necessary to use either a flash drive no more than 2 gigabytes, or 4 to boot, although in “normal mode” it also understands 32.
So try a smaller flash drive - maybe that's the thing.

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sinkot, 2012-07-06
@sinkot

I figured out how to put everything through the Windows Installer with the parameters D:\wubi.exe --force-wubi
Thank you all!

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Sergey78, 2012-07-06
@Sergey78

Just in case, for the future.
Grub can boot from a flash drive from an .iso image. Those. to the grub flash drive bootloader, to the .iso flash drive and go. For Windows, there is a grub4dos package and a GUI-muzzle for it. Examples habrahabr.ru/post/99159/

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