The live CD image is supposed to work on USB sticks too. I've looked into your syslog and I can say that my installation crashed just after the nvidia warnings too.
In my bug (I've marked my bug as a duplicate) there are two syslog files attached for the installation with/without updates (crash/no crash).
I don't have an empty CD, so I can't confirm that it works with the updates from a live CD.
The live CD image is supposed to work on USB sticks too. I've looked into your syslog and I can say that my installation crashed just after the nvidia warnings too.
In my bug (I've marked my bug as a duplicate) there are two syslog files attached for the installation with/without updates (crash/no crash).
I don't have an empty CD, so I can't confirm that it works with the updates from a live CD.