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On 03/21/12 23:34, Andrzej Tobola wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:16:59PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
>> On 03/21/12 23:06, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've forwarded your question to a colleague who is an Ubuntu fan and he
>>> replied, that the creation of a booting Ubuntu USB key is possile with
>>> Ubuntu tools/methods only, i.e. booting the Ubuntu live CD and following the
>>> ways to install it onto the key (and not on disk).
>>>
>>> He wrote some years ago a small Wiki page about, it is in German but
>>> maybe you can clue something from the commands there:
>>>
>>> http://mikiwiki.org/wiki/Ubuntu_8.10_Intrepid_Ibex/Installation_2009.04.07_usbstick
>> I'll have to translate that, but I am trying to get a 'live' usb disk to
>> demo on the clients cdrom less unit. I know the cd is live, I assumed I
>> could get a live usb disk from that based on their instructions.
>>
>> For a supposedly user friendly system, obtaining install media is not..
>> :/ Maybe a little too much debian in the system ;)
> You can use VirtualBox - boot live iso, connect usb and use native tool there.
The saga continues...

That doesn't work either- the live disk doesn't have the tools required! 
They obviously have no concept of simplicity... this really is insane :/

Back to the drawing board...