And since your computer BIOS anyway lacks a boot-from-USB option, the BIOS won’t boot from the USB drive either. 9.04’s boot loader will be inactive, and thus would not cause the system to boot from the USB drive. Ubuntu 10.04’s boot loader will now be in control, and it doesn’t have an option to boot from the USB drive. You could remove the USB drive, but even if you leave it in, there shouldn’t be a problem. Whole process should take less than 10 minutes. It will then copy the necessary files to your USB drive. Follow the onscreen instructions and answer a few questions. Choose USB Flash Drive on the next screen that pops up. When the installation is done, restart the computer, as usual. Once you are done with your thumb drive, go to Menu -> Setup -> Puppy Universal Installer.Click the “Install Ubuntu 10.04” icon on your desktop to launch the installer, and install Ubuntu as per your preferences (overwriting an existing installation, or into a new partition). If Linux Mint freezes during boot, use the 'nomodeset' boot option.You will be presented with a Grub menu from the USB pen drive select the first option to boot into a live session of Ubuntu 10.04. Reboot the computer (in my case, my laptop).The kernel parameter i915.modeset=1 prevents Ubuntu 10.04 from having problems with old Intel graphics chipsets like i915. The kernel parameter cdrom-detect/try-usb=true specifies that if the kernel file is not found on a CD-ROM, try a USB location as a fall-back. (hd0,4) is the location where the current OS (Ubuntu 9.04) is installed. For Debian, Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives, continue to step 3. Install Wireshark and libpcap: sudo apt-get install wireshark libpcap0.8. When you restart your computer, you have to repeat steps 6 and 7 to see the USB interfaces in Wireshark. Kernel /boot/usb-boot/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ed boot=casper noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent quiet splash i915.modeset=1 The first time you follow the tutorial, do all the steps 1 -> 7. Title Run Ubuntu 10.04 from USB FLASH DRIVE Add the following boot stanza to /boot/grub/menu.lst (use sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst to edit it as root):.Depending on the brand of the USB drive you are using (or the partitioning/format options it was subjected to), the label may differ - and hence the mount point, and so the path above may need to be changed. Note: KINGSTON is the label (and thus, the automatic mount-point under /media) of the filesystem on the USB drive I used.

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