Hi

I am just spent half an hour hunting for a thing that should be totally available already:
USB install images of Ubuntu, knoppix and all the others.

And, the only good way are so far complicated tutorials where you extract the stuff from an CD image. Why???

Hasn't everybody notices that CDs/DVDs are vanishing big time? That more and more systems don't have the readers anymore?

Instead of following a 10 point instruction list, it would be nice to just be able to download a Ubuntu 8.10 or whatever USB image and be able to beam that DIRECTLY to a USB stick with a dd command.

Or am a missing something here? Does this exist?

It should by no means be mariginal, considering how important USB stick in specific and flash memory in general have become.


Markus

There is a program called Unetbootin (both windows an linux versions) will will build USB images for you. Give it a try!

CDs and DVDs are not vanishing. You may have computers that use a usb connected CD/DVD drive so you have to pay extra for it.

usb is not a good permanent storage medium.

Many of us who have to do system loads save the original media on CDs or DVDs to insure we have it later.

As to complicated - nearly everything is complicated until you've done it a few times. I'll bet your first install of Linux seemed way to complicated to you and now you only find complications in using your selected install media. There are tons of old systems out in the world that don't even allow for usb boot/install.

Are you telling me my computers are OLD ?

A very valid point, and you are exactly right, they are, and won't boot from USB, but they still do everything I ask of them, so I don't see why I should go out and get newer ones.

Browny, did you look here ?

No I was saying that just because HE wants USB is no reason to suppose EVERYONE wants USB.