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I made a persistent LiveUSB drive that I've used for a while now, and I would like to install that LiveUSB environment to the harddrive of a computer.

I've tried simply installing it using the default method (Ubiquity), but it did not install any of the programs / files / settings that are stored on my casper-rw partition. Is there an easy way to install the full persistent environment from a LiveUSB drive onto a harddisk?

Thanks!

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Boot from your thumb drive.

Partition your drive so it looks like this or modify the directions accordingly:

sda1=swap
sda2=/

Then do all this as root:

  
~#mkswap /dev/sda1
~#swapon /dev/sda1

~#echo 'This one is probably un-necessary'
~#mkdir /mnt/

~#mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/migrate/
~#cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var,boot} /mnt/migrate/ 
~#mkdir /mnt/migrate/{mnt,proc,sys,tmp}
~#mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/migrate/dev/
~#mount -t proc proc /mnt/migrate/proc/

~#chroot /mnt/migrate/ /bin/bash
~#update-grub
~#grub-install /dev/sdX
~#reboot

Minimal modification from some old directions for installing BT3 here.

Also, you'll need to fix your /etc/fstab

Not the Ubuntu-ish way to do this, but it works.

@OP Nice work on the USRP by the way.

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  • Thanks for the tip! I was hoping there was some hidden configuration option in Ubiquity, but scripting up a chroot isn't too awful, all things considered =) Also, thanks for the USRP nod ;)
    – bhilburn
    Mar 16, 2012 at 23:29

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