Ok! I got this to work. thank you Ubuntu developers but talk about screwing in your own seat! 

Is there an easier way to help people create USBs? On SLAX we created a zip file then there was a boot file (2 versions actually one for linux and one for windows) that is run to make the stick bootable:  http://schoolkey.net/wiki/creating-keys

Is there a way I can I copy my USB and make the new one bootable so I don't have to go through the whole process again? 

The USB boots up to Sugar, which is what I want. Is there a way for me to also access the underlying Ubuntu?



Here is my feedback on making the existing directions more friendly.

1. Download the stock ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso and burn it

Yup, I can do this.

1. Boot from this CD and from there, use LiveUSB to copy the system to USB stick (use a stick with 1-2 GB capacity as problems have been reported with larger ones)

Ok so when you follow this link you eventually end up at this page.  http://ppa.launchpad.net/probono/ubuntu/pool/main/l/liveusb/

Please provide instructions on exactly what to download. I picked liveusb_0.1.1_all.deb
Then also provide instructions on exactly what the user should do to install it.  I fumbled around and eventually it opened, but I couldn't actually tell someone else how to do it.
Then provide instruction on exactly which options to set.  I picked both persistence and flash and the flash ended up giving me an error.

1. If you use the persistence option, you need to replace casper/initrd.gz on the stick with the bugfixed initrd.gz provided here.

The Casper direction is write protected. Please provide instructions on how to deal with that.
What is this? Why am I doing it?

1. Add the file sugar.squashfs to the directory casper/ on the USB stick

Again the write protection on Casper made this more of a challenge then might be expected.









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