Talk:Ubuntu:Install from USB drive

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So how many files do I need? First the article says: "You will need three files for a complete Ubuntu installation: initrd.gz, vmlinuz, and the Ubuntu 5.04 ISO." Then it later says to make the USB thumb drive bootable, one needs "syslinux and mboot files, which are in the ubuntu repositories."

For the Ubuntu newbie where/what is the repositories, or are these files embedded in the ISO image?

Didn't work for me. The step "sudo zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb1" worked but changed the formatted size of my flash drive from 2GB to 238MB. Thankfully I have a Windows machine. I put the memory stick on the windows machine and reformatted with FAT back to the full size. Tried again and once again Ubuntu resized it to 238MB during the "sudo zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb1" step. That caused the alternative iso to not fit, so this was aborted in frustration.

I also had the problem in the second paragraph I dont know how this is happening because in gparted it reports the partition size in fat32 as 700something megs when the drive im using is 8gb.