02-25-2014
Copy existing Ubuntu to boot from USB
Hello all,
I am looking for a way to copy the existing Ubuntu server 12.04 to a USB (with all the packages and such) and make it boot from the USB.
I have seen other threads about copying the CD image to the USB, which is not exactly I am looking for.
Before I start diving into anything I was wondering if any of you experts here would give me a direction to start.
Thank you!
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk
MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1) General Commands Manual MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)
NAME
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk - Convert a livecd image to a live USB image then write to a USB disk or partition
SYNOPSIS
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk [--reset-mbr] [--noverify] [--overlay-size-mb <size>] [--home-size-mb <size>] [--unencrypted-home] <isopath>
[usbstick device]
<isopath> is your livecd image path name, [usbstick device] is optional, if not provided, it will detect automatically and ask you to
select.
DESCRIPTION
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can convert a livecd image to a live USB image and write it to a USB disk or partition, it is different from mic-
image-writer which is just a safer dd with progress bar.
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk can detect all the removable USB disks and let you select one of them, if you didn't insert any USB disk, it will
ask you to insert until a USB disk is available, it can decide if your USB disk need to be formated and if your USB disk has an appropriate
partition for this livecd image, all the operations are interactive and have warnings f they will damage your old data on your USB disk.
mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for it.
OPTIONS
--reset-mbr Set MBR on your USB disk
--noverify Don't verify your livecd image
--overlay-size-mb Specify overlay size, the default size is 64 MB
--home-size-mb Specify home size, the default is 0
EXAMPLES
Write a Molib live image to your USB disk:
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk your-2.1-final.img
EXIT STATUS
mic-livecd-iso-to-disk returns a zero exist status if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.
AUTHOR
Yi Yang, Anas Nashif, Jianfeng Ding
SEE ALSO
mic-image-creator(1), mic-convertor(1), mic-chroot(1), mic-image-writer(1), mic-image-manager(1)
perl v5.12.3 2011-05-31 MIC-LIVECD-ISO-TO-DISK(1)