I've had VirtualBox installed for sometime. Seems this thread didn't get much response. Let me know if you have any other suggestions.
#NEXENTASTOR INSTALL TO USB DRIVE INSTALL#
So I think I'll check around a little more with the present installation, and if I can't get it to work, there's no reason not to install 9.0.4 over it, and will let you know what happens. I have an Ubuntu 8.0.4.2 install on a laptop, so if grub were necessary, wonder if I could just copy it from there and then tweak script. The installer (advanced button) did give the option, not only of where to install grub, but also of not installing grub at all, so I'm wondering why it would do that if grub were absolutely necessary. Ideally, I'd like the pendrive system to work on various computers, so thought it would be nice if it could boot without grub, as my purpose was not to have other systems to boot from installed on the pendrive. Nexenta does not use grub, and also, at present, will not install on a partition. Nexenta uses the Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS, so felt I should install 8.0.4 to get good comparison. Wanted to try Nexenta (), which features Ubuntu userland while running on OpenSolaris kernal based on XFS rather than Ubuntu's ext file system, and I wanted to compare Nexenta with Ubuntu. Anyway, let me tell you why I wanted to install 8.0.4. I want to avoid writing too much to the drive, as I've already installed system twice on this one.
I may take you up on your suggestion of installing 9.0.4, perhaps on another pendrive when I can get my hands on one. Thanks for replying, and compliments on the instructions. Was it you then who posted the instructions at ? Nice to meet you. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Hope someone has experience installing on pendrives.
The second case, with no grub installed, nothing happens at all, there is just a blank screen with a blinking line in the top left corner. Nothing booted, not the pendrive Ubuntu or Ubuntu originally on my laptop. However, choosing any of these just led to errors. The first case, with grub installed on pendrive, grub booted, showing both pendrive Ubuntu boot and the Ubuntu on my laptop as possible booting options. I tried two installs, the first time using the advanced button to make sure that grub would be installed on the USB drive, and the second time installing without grub. So installed 8.0.4.2 on 8G Kingston DataTraveler, with ext2 as the file system type and mount point as /. After reading what I could find on installing ubuntu on a pendrive, I finally followed instructions at, as had very clear hints for tweaking the system to reduce the number of disk writes, necessary for life of pendrive.