USB Ubuntu 7.10 install from Linux

Hint: You can drastically speed up the install by Copying (Ctrl+c) and Pasting (Ctrl+v) commands into the terminal instead of manually typing them out. With the exception of replacing x with your drive letter.

Grab the Ubuntu 7.10 ISO and burn it to a CD
Insert the CD and your USB flash drive
Reboot your computer into Ubuntu from the Live CD
Open a terminal window and type sudo su
Type fdisk -l to list available drives/partitions. Note which device is your flash drive (example: /dev/sda) Throughout this tutorial, replace x with your flash drive letter. For example, if your flash drive is sdb, replace x with b.
Type umount /dev/sdx1
Type fdisk /dev/sdx
type p to show the existing partition and d to delete it
type p again to show any remaining partitions (if partitions exist, repeat the previous step)
type n to make a new partition
type p for primary partition
type 1 to make this the first partition
hit 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
hit enter to use the default cylinder
hit enter again to use the default last cylinder
type w to write the new partition table
Type umount /dev/sdx1 to ensure the 1st partition is unmounted
Type mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n ubuntu710 /dev/sdx1 to format the first partition
Type umount /dev/sdx2 just to ensure the 2nd partition is unmounted
Type mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdx2 to format the second partition
Remove and Re-insert your flash drive
Back at the terminal, type apt-get update
Type apt-get install syslinux mtools

Type syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1
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/

Ignore any "cannot create symbolic link" errors
Type cd /home/ubuntu
Type wget pendrivelinux.com/downloads/U710fix.zip
Type unzip -o -d /media/ubuntu710/ U710fix.zip
Restart your computer, set your BIOS or Boot menu to boot from the USB device and reboot again.
You should now have a USB Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon flash drive that should automatically save your changes, restoring them on boot.

Note: If your having trouble getting Ubuntu to boot, your memory stick may have a corrupted MBR. To repair the MBR of your USB device, at the terminal type

sudo apt-get install lilo

then type

lilo -M /dev/sdx (replacing x with the letter of your flash device)