Live USB system creator

The Live USB system creator is to tool designed to create Live USBs of Ubuntu from a running Ubuntu Live CD

Live USB system creator

Live USB system creator
Original author(s)	Simon Peter
Preview release	0.1.0
Repository	code.launchpad.net/~probono/liveusb/main
Operating system	Ubuntu
License	open source
Website	http://klik.atekon.de/liveusb/

Features

• Detects available USB flash drives (using HAL)
• Partitions USB flash drive with 1 partition
• Sets partition bootable
• Writes MBR to USB flash drive
• Formats partition FAT32
• Installs bootloader (syslinux) to partition
• Writes bootloader configuration file
• Copies necessary files from running Live CD to USB flash drive
• Sets language and keyboard of USB Live system to match running Live CD
• Optionally: Downloads and integrates Adobe Flash Player
• Optionally: Enables persistent /home (Ubuntu 8.10 and later only)

Related pages

• List of tools to create Live USB systems
• Ubuntu Live USB creator