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I'd like to run Hardy Heron from a USB stick. I found instructions for installing to USB here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/04/09 ... m-windows/ but that's not a persistent install. How do I do a persistent install (so that I can save changes to the flash drive)?

EDIT: from what I can tell from other posts on other forums, persistent is broken in 8.04. If I try to boot persistent, I get a text mode busybox. Regular live booting works fine.

That's interesting. I would like to know too.

Can't u install Ubunto onto a flash drive?

I know you can install it on an external hard drive, so I don't really doubt that you it can be done on a flash drive. I'm not sure, but using Wubi might work this. Your flash drive might needs to be bigger than 2gb though.

Aha!
I had Gutsy running fine on a 1gb flash. Hardy broke persistence, but it can be fixed - see: http://t-skariah.blogspot.com/2008/04/u ... n-usb.html

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrive ... sistent%29

Fairly simple instructions to "install" Ubuntu to USB. If you skip the bits about adding an ext2/ext3 partition it'll just end up being a normal live usb stick. I've used that since...well at least 7.04 and it's always worked.

The problem is that persistent mode is broken is Hardy Heron 8.04, as mentioned in a few of the posts in this thread. You have to fix initrd.gz to make it work. The wiki is out of date on this point - the changes it lists won't make a USB stick work in persistent mode.

The clearest howto I've found so far is: http://www.ryancloke.com/ubuntu-804-har ... sb-how-to/

For those who don't want to edit the initrd.gz file themselves, someone has posted an edited copy in the bug report. Look for the reply by Flipside Tech dated 2008-04-29.

I couldn't use the file myself because I'm running Kubuntu (the file is for Ubuntu) but I can confirm that the same patch (deleting mode=755) works like a champ.