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2009-12-01
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I installed Ubuntu on a thumb drive last night and booted to it from my laptop afterward. After iso download, everything was done in under 5 minutes. Fastest, easiest OS install/setup ever for me. Amazing.
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2009-12-01
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Anybody owning a mac can help me? What I want is a Linux distro on a 8 GB pendrive, possibly to launch from the rEfit boot screen. (And possibly supporting the hardware)
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2009-12-01
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here is a very good (but german) how-to for booting on EFI system, and here an english one. there are also a few threads on the ubuntuforums regarding this issue.
it's a bit more involved, i'm afraid, but it should be possible
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2009-12-01
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Wow, quite some difference between the links from my post and your second link... xD
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2009-12-01
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hehe yeah, sorry. that was the only one i found quickly
and it's not even about a live USB system...
the german link is actually exactly what you need, and you don't need to understand every bit of it.
here a short translation (i'm currently at work, so i shouldn't spend too much time here *g*) of the most important parts:
*) install rEFIt on the mac
*) prepare the ubuntu USB stick
*) get grub2efi (aka bootusb.tar.gz)
*) copy the "efi" folder from that archive to the usb stick
*) edit /efi/boot/grub.cfg on the stick and make sure the filename of the ISO is correct
that's basically it.
the rest of this article are troubleshooting suggestions for the video driver on macbooks.
adding "fix_video" in the menuentry for your ubuntu image, and adding
Driver "fbdev"
to /etc/X11/xorg.conf should fix video issues.
with the folder /efi/boot, rEFIt should list this USB stick as a possible boot option.
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2009-12-01
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2009-12-01
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One problem though: I cannot mount the laptop's NTFS drive from Ubuntu. This is a showstopper, unless I can also fit the Maemo SDK + Qt Developer onto the 4 gig thumb drive.
I'm suspecting it's the disk security (Pointsec) that's the roadblock. I have read of a way to strip Pointsec off, and sooner or later I'll need to, but that means reimaging the laptop and I'm just not up for that right now... so I'm googling for an easier solution...
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