Am using a USB Stick to install Ubuntu Server 11 on a Linux machine, rather than using CD-ROM.
(Am using Mac OSX 10.6.7 to download my iso, configure USB stick, and then copy .iso to it)
This worked for me
- Insert 4GB USB Stick
- Open Disk Utility, Click ERASE. Format USB using MS-DOS (FAT)
- When Disk appears in Left hand column, right click and get Information (note down the "Disk Identifier : eg disk6")
- Then right click the Disk and select Unmount. (the drive still shows but the disk unmounts)
- Switching to the Terminal App
- Change to superuser / root, by issuing: sudo su - (then enter your password)
- Change directory to where ever your recently downloaded .iso image is stored, eg: Downloads
- My file iso is called ubuntu-11.04-server-amd64.iso, (approx 650mb) so use the following command:
Code:
dd if=ubuntu-11.04-server-amd64.iso of=/dev/disk6 bs=8192
- This will start copying the file to the USB stick.
- There is no "verbose" or screen "output" of what is happening. But after 15mins you should see something like:
The end result is a USB stick containing the installation media of Ubuntu Server (swap Ubuntu server for your media download of choice). Happy Days.