How to Install Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic) from USB stick

This post was written by admin on October 29, 2009
Posted Under: General

1.Install Unetbootin.Unetbootin is an easy-to-use GUI tool that you can easily create bootable live-usb.

You can download from its homepage,or read this post for installing unetbootin on ubuntu.

2.Download Ubuntu 9.10 iso image from www.ubuntu.com.

3.Open up unetbootin from Applications->System Tools->UNetbootin(For Windows,click to run the exe file you downloaded).Select Diskimage and click marked button to select downloaded iso image.

Click on Ok to start create the bootable live-usb.

4.Once the installation complete,click on Restart Now.Select boot from USB in BIOS,and choose default when you get into an graphical interface.

5.Now,you should boot up ubuntu 9.10 just like boot from live-CD.

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Reader Comments

Dude that’s dumb, ubuntu comes now with a startup disk creator for USB drives [system > administration > USB startup disk creator] and it’s super easy, fast and reliable. I had ubuntu 9.10 installed in less than 10 min with a USB stick on a old computer. It’s much faster than a disc.

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Heathen_Layman Reply:
December 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am

Dumb? What if your creating the bootable USB from a machine running windows so that you can install Ubuntu on a laptop with a broken CD drive? I also think its safe to say that a fair amount of people installing the easy to use Ubuntu OS are windows users looking to switch.

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martosurf Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 7:15 pm

“Dude that’s dumb, ubuntu comes now with a startup disk creator for USB drives [system > administration > USB startup disk creator] and it’s super easy, fast and reliable. I had ubuntu 9.10 installed in less than 10 min with a USB stick on a old computer. It’s much faster than a disc.”

YEAH!! The author of this blog is pathetic, an asshole moron fag, he deserves nothing but a slow painfull death, don’t you think!?

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OF COURSE I’M BEING IRONIC.
Thank you very much for this useful tip! I’m running KUBUNTU (a KDE-centric distro you smart guy) and it ships it’s own USB creator, which don’t run as expected, by the way, so you’re tip is greatly appreciated as an alternative to create LiveUSB installations.
Thanks again and close your ears to too-smart (that’s mean STUPID) speaches, best!

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Written By fredo on November 1st, 2009 @ 12:00 am

How to do this without UNetbootin? I mean the manual way, with syslinux & co?

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Written By Vince on November 11th, 2009 @ 7:56 am

Not so dumb, dude. How you gonna boot the ISO to get to the startup disk built if all you have is the ISO file and no CD drive? I’m finding this useful.

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Written By Vik Olliver on December 1st, 2009 @ 10:39 pm

OK, so when it doesn’t work, then what? I’ve just done this to a genuine Toshiba 4GB USB stick. The stick boots, I select English, and then either:

a) Try the verify option or
b) try the install option.

In either case (sometimes after hitting shift or ctrl to wake up some kind of screen saver) the result is a message in a BusyBox shell saying that it can’t find a live image.

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Written By Vik Olliver on December 1st, 2009 @ 10:54 pm

Actually, I just created one on a netbook with Windows 7. Daemon Tools Lite + 9.10 ISO = usb_creator/exe = win. Do I get a cookie or a smiley-face sticker?

P.S. Tried UNetBootIn but it didn’t work as completely as advertised. I hope this method works better.

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Written By Anonymous Coward on February 27th, 2010 @ 8:40 am