Follow nhanquy's post, ubuntu 8.10 flash drivve installed successfully.

See hanquy's post for links,
1) dl the ubuntu 8.10 live CD
2) burn the dl .iso image to a CDR, you need a 700 MB CDR, on burning, choose option Data/image burning and point to the dl .iso image.
3) boot up ubuntu from your winPC.
4) Open a terminal window, plug in your flash drive
5) run the chmod command, follow the screen, the bottom of the screen will tell you your drive letter, say /dev/sdb1, you will then enter b for your drive
6) It keeps on clicking and spitted out some error statements too, just leave it alone
7) change your winPC bootup to boot up from USB, on HP computer, I press the esc key right after the HP logo, and choose option Eng and boot/save into USB. Bingo, you now have a linux running system!
8) edit bootup from bootup setting, from now on, winPC will automatically detect flash drive OS and boot to ubuntu automagically

Is it slow? Not at all, it takes a min or so on boot up, but the running is eyeblinking...

I use a 16G flash drive, Corsair, I think anything larger than 2G will be fine.

Thanks, nhanquy.

bun