I booted Ubuntu from a CD yesterday and it took extremely long to boot and was somewhat slow when it was up and running. Would a USB flashdrive boot and run faster or not?
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USB Flash drive vs CD for Ubuntu?
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Yes, absolutely. I cannot stand installing Ubuntu from a CD anymore. Additionally, you can make a "Live USB Key", perfect for hacking, er, troubleshooting computers. You can boot from the USB key and you will have access to NTFS, FAT, and even HFS partitions.
You can create this USB key several ways:
Hope this helps.
-Aaron-
You can create this USB key several ways:
- From within Ubuntu, use System > Administration > Startup Disk Creator
- From within Windows, there are several alternatives, including this one: http://www.linuxliveusb.com/
Hope this helps.
-Aaron-
I've left out the optical drive in my latest custom PC build. I've also replaced the superdrive with an extra hdd in my Macbook pro 2 days after receiving it. I cringe whenever I need to burn a DVD for someone. 
USB all the way
USB all the way
Well now I've encountered a problem in which I can't boot from the flash drive. It shows up in refit as a "legacy" drive and when I select it windows boots up.
When I hold alt/option at startup it doesnt even show up.
When I boot into osx and go to system preferences to select the startup disk it doesnt show up even though it is on the desktop.
HELP!!!
When I hold alt/option at startup it doesnt even show up.
When I boot into osx and go to system preferences to select the startup disk it doesnt show up even though it is on the desktop.
HELP!!!
have you set up the USB drive as a bootable device? You can't just format it and import the ISO into it.