In preparation of the arrival of my MSI Wind (I’m very much looking forward to that, I’ve ordered the black one.), I wanted a usb pen, booting a desktop version of Ubuntu so I can install that on my future toy, since the MSI Wind doesn’t have an optical drive.
If you want that too, or just want Ubuntu on a usb stick, follow this guide:
You need:
USB stick, with at least ~750mb of space (using a 1gb-stick is a safe bet)
Windows or Ubuntu installation.
installation
Go here, and download the program suited for your operating system.
Use the program with your usb pen, and now you have a bootable usb pen.
Boot from it and you have your favourite linux distribution installed!
after installation
After finishing the installation, edit /etc/fstab and make sure that /media/cdrom0 points to the CD drive and not to the USB stick. If you don’t, you might get this error when trying to mount a USB stick: “Cannot mount volume. Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume.” This is because the installer believes it is installing from a CD drive ([WWW] bug 150872).
Open /etc/fstab for editing,
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Find a line like this (usually the last line), it wil point to the same sdXX as found earlier:
/dev/sdXX /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
and comment it out by placing a # at the beginning:
#/dev/sdXX /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
or simply delete it.
Save the file, and you’re done.
Thanks to the guys from ubuntu, who do a great job.
This should come in useful, considering my cdrom drive is soooooo slow…
The time the installation from my usb pen took, really blew me away.
After booting and doing some configuration work (language, name, etc), which took lees than 2 minutes, the actual copying of files and installing the operating system took only 3 (three) minutes!!!
I have to admit that I have a fairly quick machine and harddrive, but still..
I will post some results on the Wind as soon as the thing arrives.