19.04 Live

[Grizzly]

01 May 2019  at 22:10, Mike Marchywka wrote:
Re: 19.04 Live (at least in part)

>I got started with 'Beaver using the startup CD creator on IIRC Ubuntu 11
>which was not guaranteed to work and sure enough it failed on the old
>emachines but I finally got syslinux to work after hacking up the iso. The
>Ubuntu 16 startup creator works fine iwht 'Beavver ISO on the Dell UEFI have
>not tested on emachines bios. However, AFAICT the stuff is all on an ISO file
>system which is not read-write and I'd like to avoid that as I did with the
>syslinux version. 

Having tested (and still testing) with 
LinuxLive2.9.4
Rufus-2.9
Rufus-3.4
USB-Installer-1.9.8.6
USB-Installer-1.9.8.7
Win32DiskImager-0.9.5
Win32DiskImager-1.0.0
YUMI-2.0.6.5
And native "Create Startup Media" in Ubuntu 16.04 & 18.04
 
I find that the "best" option changes for each release, it does help that I 
have Windowz, Ubuntu, PuppyLinux & Elementry boxes to test with.

Your definition of "Best" choice may very depending on what you want/need, I 
have managed to get a good outcome with all above except Yumi, no version of 
that has made a bootable USB with any Ubuntu (or other iso for that matter) 
version, it always hangs at a BusyBox prompt.

USB-Installer was my goto installer for a long time because it just worked, 
gave a working option to add persistent storage, but at some point around 
1.9.6.x the persistant option stopped working (you could add it but then it 
would not boot), later versions still have value as they support a large amount 
of iso's 

Rufus has always worked well but has no Persistant option

LinuxLive (a bit flashy) but until the latest Ubuntu (19.04) has worked well 
giving a reliable persistant option, but has not seen an update for a few years 
(2015 iirc) that may explain why I cant get it to make a bootable persistant 
USB 

Create Startup Media (native) has always worked well but again has no 
persistant option (TTBOMK) it has worked forward (14.04 will make a 16.04 or 
18.04 USB), I have even managed a few non-Ubuntu USB's with it

>I just thought if there was a link to documentation  I could start from
>scratch, copy everything to a hand partitioned SSD and go with that. 

No need, making a good working bootable USB is not hard.

If you want a portable (non-live) install of Ubuntu it is possible to install 
to an external USB, but that requires a bit of fiddling [1] if you want to boot 
from "ANY"  machine, it works very well, I carry a working 16.04.6 with all the 
tools you never knew you needed "until you do"

The only downside(s) to that are USB speeds across different boxes, also I 
would have to fiddle more if I wished to but it on a number of MAC boxes, it 
can be done (I have done it for a client) but as I don't have a MAC to test 
each time and don't "need" it I just keep the instructions (and a few *.sh 
scripts to help)

[1] the external USB HD will work fine (maybe slowly) on the machine you 
installed it from, but you will need to add the grub boot loader to it, I know 
it should be there if you followed the directions on many AskUbuntu threads, 
but IME, you need to do it yourself to make it portable