How do I install Ubuntu using a thumb drive?

[Eshwar Varanasi]

Dear Users,

   I'm a new bee, looking for a dual boot from microsoft xp os with ubuntu
which i got free from digit magazine few months earlier. I'm stuck at a
point where i had to provide partitions for my disk, i have 300gb hdd.
almost divided into 20, 60,60,60,80,10 space drives. I want to use the last
10gb unallocated space for ubuntu,but in the installation it shows disk
partition as
as /dev/root then /dev/spa1 for 20gb /dev/spa2 for 60.../dev/spa6 for 10 gb.
but I had very important stuff in my hdd, so couldnt risk.

Can you guys guide me how to install ubuntu in that 10gb unallocated disk
space without loosing my 290gb hdd data.

-Eshwar

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:07 AM, David Widder <daveco-inc at hotmail.com>wrote:

>  When you start up your computer, there are usually a few commands, like
> press F12 for setup, but they could be the Delete or F2 keys also. in that
> menu, there will be some place that says "boot order" and arange them so USB
> is above HD or hard drive. save, exit and reboot.
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> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:03:56 -0700
> From: cy41169 at yahoo.com
> Subject: How do I install Ubuntu using a thumb drive?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Hi again...
> I had asked earlier how to install Ubuntu using a thumb drive and got a
> response saying I needed to be more detailed. I first tried using Unetbootin
> to transfer Ubuntu 8.10 onto a 2 gigabyte thumb drive. Unetbootin requires
> broadband internet so I took my netbook to a coffee shop and used their
> wifi. After Ubuntu had finished downloading I checked to see if Ubuntu was
> on the thumb drive and it was so I rebooted my computer. When my computer
> started up Windows came up running. My computer didn't go into Ubuntu live
> mode. The second method was to run a cd in live mode and then in the menu
> selected make a USB startup disk. After the transfer was complete I put the
> thumb drive in my USB port of my netbook and again it went straight into
> Windows without going into Ubuntu. I finally purchased a thumb drive with
> Ubuntu 8.10 and the results were the same. I have an Inspiration netbook.
> Please let me know if I need to include anymore information. Thank you.
> Charlie
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