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Welcome to the tutorial guide. The guide will provide you with instructions and advise on how to install, boot and run Ubuntu 7.10 from a USB flash drive.

USB Ubuntu 7.10 requirements:
Before we go through the installation process for Ubuntu 7.10 from a USB flash drive, it is important to know the requirements for installation. These are provided below:

- Ubuntu7.10 ISO
- CD Burner
- 1GB USB flash drive (2GB+ recommended)
- U710fix.zip

Now, let’s go through the process of installing Ubuntu 7.10 from a USB flash drive. We are assuming that z is your flash drive, so whatever is your drive letter, simply replace z with that letter.

- first of all, please get the Ubuntu 7.10 ISO and burn it to a CD
- then insert the CD and the USB flash drive
- now, reboot your computer into Ubuntu from the Live CD
- open a terminal window and type following: sudo su
- Type fdisk -l to list available drives/partitions
- Type umount /dev/sdz1
- Type fdisk /dev/sdz
- Type p to show the existing partition and d to delete it
- Type p again to show any remaining partitions
- Type n to make a new partition
- Type p for primary partition
- Type 1 to make this the first partition
- press enter to use the default 1st cylinder
- Type +750M to set the partition size
- Type a to make this partition active
- Type 1 to select partition 1
- Type t to change the partition filesystem
- Type 6 to select the fat16 file system
- Type n to make another new partition
- Type p for primary partition
- Type 2 to make this the second partition
- press enter to use the default cylinder
- press enter again to use the default last cylinder
- Type w to write the new partition table

Important points to note:
- If you want the 1st partition to be unmounted, then please type umount /dev/sdz1
- If you want to format the first partition, then please type mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n ubuntu710 /dev/sdz1
- If you want the second partition to be unmounted then please type umount /dev/sdz2
- If you want the second partition to be formated then please type mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdz2

Now, please remove and re-insert the flash drive and at the terminal, just type apt-get update
- Type apt-get install syslinux mtools
- Type syslinux -sf /dev/sdz1
- Type cd /cdrom
- Type cp -rf casper disctree dists install pics pool preseed .disk isolinux/* md5sum.txt README.diskdefines ubuntu.ico casper/vmlinuz casper/initrd.gz /media/ubuntu710/
- Type cd /home/ubuntu
- Type wget pendrivelinux.com/downloads/U710fix.zip
- Type unzip -o -d /media/ubuntu710/ U710fix.zip

The final stage is to restart the computer, and please set the BIOS or Boot menu to boot from the USB device and reboot again.

If you followed all the steps, the you will have a USB Ubuntu 7.10 flash drive that should automatically save your changes, and restore them on boot.