I recently downloaded Ubuntu 8.04.1-Hardy Heron and made a live cd
but since i didn't want to mess around with the partitions on my hard disk,i thought i'd install it on my pen drive(2gb kingston)
i took the method(s) from here
USB Ubuntu 8.04 Persistent install from Live CD | USB Pen Drive Linux
USB Ubuntu 8.04 Persistent install using Windows | USB Pen Drive Linux
but in both methods,i managed to get the files on the drive
but i couldn't get the computer to boot from the pen drive
USB drive just doesn't show up under "removable devices" in the bios
can anyone please help me out?
did i do something wrong?is it the drive's fault?or the computer's?
or maybe even the method of install??
EDIT:
I'm trying this out on my old laptop and my dad's old P4 computer
I haven't tried it on my system
Could it be a case of the motherboards in those systems not supporting "boot from USB"??