Armed with my faithful MacBook, an internet connection, and a 2GB USB flash disk; I set out on an adventure to bring my daughter’s future netbook alive.

With the help of Live USB, now you can troubleshoot, backup data of your crashed PC or even carry a full Open Office in your USB. Now with the help of UNetbootin you can easily create Live USB of Ubuntu within 5 minutes.

Actually Ubuntu provide CD Live for aurun with cd without installation with your hardisk. Now you can install Persistent Ubuntu 9.04 from windows with your USB as your booting system.

Active Media Products (AMP), manufacturer of SSDs and WWF series USB drives, today announced immediate availability of a bootable Linux USB (BLU) drive that is compatible with Windows® 7 and benefits WWF.

Blogger Kishan Bagaria shared an interesting utility called uSBuntu Live Creator which goes a step beyond apps like the Fedora LiveUSB Creator and UnetBootIn to provide a simple way to install Ubuntu in combination with portable VirtualBox.

When you format a hard drive or storage unit, you have different file systems from which we can use, for example, vfat and ntfs for Windows, and swap, ext2 and ext3 for Linux systems. Here, i explain how to format a USB drive using vfat.

This basically makes the Live Ubuntu ISO save changes onto your USB drive by using casper-rw loop file for persistently saving and restoring changes on subsequent boots.

I wanted to try out the Fedora LiveCD on my netbook, however I really only use Ubuntu and the utility on Ubuntu to create a USB boot disk only supports converting an Ubuntu ISO.

This tutorial describes how to install Ubuntu by copying the contents of the installation CD to an USB memory stick (aka flash drive) and making the stick bootable.

One of the things you need to take into consideration is the size of ubuntu’s default install and the size of your flash media. My suggestion is something about close to 7-8gigs to be comfortable but I think a 4gig flash drive should suffice if you plan to use something like a persistant live cd, [...]

uSbuntu Live Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable USB stick with Ubuntu 8.10 on it. This software also offers a new option for virtualization to run Ubuntu directly into Windows and without any setup or installation – this is done by using a portable version of VirtualBox.

If you’re building these machines from scratch, you can cut corners. Other than for installing the OS, you won’t need a keyboard, mouse, optical drive or screen. You can even avoid using an optical drive for installation by using a tool called UNetbootin. This generates a Ubuntu USB stick installation from a standard CD image.

Being able to run Linux straight out of a USB drive is a great way to enjoy the liveCD experience, letting you run Linux from any computer you want. And it saves you from the trouble of carrying a CD along all the time, with your USB drive easily tucked away in your pocket.

This short guide shows how you can pass through USB devices (such as a USB flash drive) to VirtualBox guests on an Ubuntu 8.10 VirtualBox 2 host.

Being able to run Linux straight out of a USB drive is a great way to enjoy the liveCD experience, letting you run Linux from any computer you want. And it saves you from the trouble of carrying a CD along all the time, with your USB drive easily tucked away in your pocket.

Using Windows XP, the following procedure outlines how to extract an .img file and create a bootable USB drive with a few simple commands:

Windows only: Free application Portable Ubuntu for Windows runs an entire Linux operating system as a Windows application. As if that weren’t cool enough, it’s portable, so you can carry it on your thumb drive.

One other advantage: Creating a Ubuntu boot flashdrive is surprisingly easy.

This tutorial describes how to install Ubuntu by copying the contents of the installation CD to an USB memory stick (aka flash drive) and making the stick bootable. This is handy for machines like ultra portable notebooks that do not have a CD drive but can boot from USB media.

This guide shows how you can create USB startup disks (on your USB flash drive) from various Linux distributions with UNetbootin. This is useful if you want to install a Linux distribution on a computer that has no CD/DVD drive.

This guide shows how you can install Ubuntu 8.10 on a USB flash drive. Ubuntu 8.10 comes with a tool that lets you create a USB startup disk easily – this startup disk behaves like the Ubuntu 8.10 Live-CD.

Nothing can beat having a great Linux distro installed on a super-fast hard drive, with all your favourite apps configured just how you like them and all your files at your fingertips.

Got a thumb USB drive or an SD card, and you’d like to put Linux on it? Did the other HOWTOs fail you? This is the real deal, through and through. This trick also works out-of-the-box with Kubuntu and other Ubuntu variants as well. Moreover, you can adapt it with very few changes to any [...]

I finally had the chance to play with the usb-creator feature on the Ibex live CD a few days ago. In short the Ubuntu 8.10 Live CD comes with the option to create a USB startup disk or burn the Live CD iso file to a USB stick, to put it differently.