My computer (Dell D820 laptop) has 1 internal disk, devided into 3 partitions (dell utility - windows - Ubuntu 8.04).I found a way of doing it in a much simpler way… without creating the separate partition to store the LiveCD:Ī couple of assumptions to take into account when going through this manual: Together with a colleague of mine, I decided to figure out whether there could be an easier way to install Ubuntu on a USB device. Besides, having to prepare your USB device, creating a separate partition on it which will be more or less “useless” after the installation, giving up 750MB of space?

I was reading How to install Ubuntu Linux from USB Stick posted on this site a while ago, and found it to be quite some work to get Ubuntu working on a USB stick. Hi, as Sanderj stated Persistence is the space where you save your Docs, whatever, the max usage space on your list is 4GB, and that is all Fat 32 will allow, so your 32 GB is wasted, but try this tutorial from UbuntuGeek:. See also this link, and the discussion in the whole thread (the question and also the other answers), Mkusb can create such a persistent live system, and setting up a big or huge partition is much faster than doing it for a file of the same size. If you have a big USB drive, like in this case a hard disk drive, or an SSD, and you want to use all the remaining drive space for persistence, you can use a persistent live system with a casper-rw partition. Under 10 seconds! That must have been it. Taking forever? edit: I retried the install. Universal USB asked me (optional) to define the persistent data sizeĪnd I accidentally had the whole space drive (of the HDD) defined for She solved the problem by creating a smaller casper-rw file, only a few Gigabyte. The method to create the casper-rw file is intended for rather small USB pendrives, and it will take a very long time for a huge file. The Universal USB Installer creates a casper-rw file for persistence, and she had selected all remaining space for it, which made it huge, because it was in a hard disk drive. I write this answer to explain the solution. The OP, was able to solve the problem after we had exchanged ideas via comments. Universal USB Installer and a casper-rw file

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