Installing via USB is much better/easier than via cd/dvd simply because it’s not going to get scratched up, you can easily carry it around with you to loan to friends, etc..
Let’s set up a couple things – our usb stick is currently on /dev/sdb (find this out by typing tail -f /var/log/syslog (or /var/log/messages) when plugging it in. The image we’re going to write is xubuntu.iso.
From Linux command line:
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sudo umount /dev/sdb sudo dd if=/path/to/xubuntu.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=4M |
From Linux GUI:
Some people like using the GUI to do things.. if that’s you, you’ll want to download ‘usb-creator’ (if you don’t already have it) and use that to write to your usb stick.
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