Comments on: Install Ubuntu on USB hard drive

By: Weekly Digest for December 13th | Risto H. Kurppa

Weekly Digest for December 13th | Risto H. Kurppa — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:42:28 +0000

[...] Published Install Ubuntu on USB hard drive. [...]

By: Niko

Niko — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:43:47 +0000

I have kubuntu running from usb hard drive, I installed it like Alan did.

By: Risto H. Kurppa

Risto H. Kurppa — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:57:24 +0000

@Alan: That’s the first thing I tried – but the installed didn’t let me select the drive to install to, it only showed hda, the internal hard disk. Is ubiquity supposed to support USB drives..?

By: Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:54:56 +0000

Unetbootin will give you a live USB stick, but it’s not quite the same as having a full install on a stick.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:53:23 +0000

Why not just use unetbootin ???

By: Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:04:20 +0000

Burn the ISO to a CD or USB stick and boot from that, then run the installer as normal and install onto another USB stick?

That’s how I did it.

By: Risto H. Kurppa

Risto H. Kurppa — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:01:58 +0000

qemu –help

-fda/-fdb file use ‘file’ as floppy disk 0/1 image
-hda/-hdb file use ‘file’ as IDE hard disk 0/1 image
-hdc/-hdd file use ‘file’ as IDE hard disk 2/3 image

that’s where hda comes from.

/dev/sdc is the usb image on the host computer
/dev/sda is the only hard drive Ubuntu live session sees.

By: walker

walker — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:23:23 +0000

i just saw on the one hand “hda”, on the other hand “sda”. maybe it’s that?

By: Risto H. Kurppa

Risto H. Kurppa — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:52:54 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. Any better ideas?

By: cmd

cmd — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:47:18 +0000

that’s hardly an easy or great way to install ubuntu on a usb hard drive