Several questions -
Where are the most up to date instructions online?
What size USB flash drive do you need? I have a 4GB here. Will that do?
Several questions -
Where are the most up to date instructions online?
What size USB flash drive do you need? I have a 4GB here. Will that do?
Should. Depends on the specific size of the flavor of Ubuntu you will be "burning" to the flash drive. Everything on it will be wiped. Whenever you seek something related to Ubuntu how-to stuff, help.ubuntu.com and tutorials.ubuntu.com are a good places to start.
As for how to actually create a bootable, installable, flash drive, is the official answer:
https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutoria...ck-on-ubuntu#0
There are links for how to do it for other OSes on that page too.
There are 50+ other answers, but those generally are more complex to someone new. Best to stick with the official answer that has been followed by thousands of relatively new-to-Linux people.
https://help.ubuntu.com/ has desktop and server User Guides for LTS and non-LTS releases, when you need that.
https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/index.html
Ubuntu 19.10 Desktop Guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
Installation/From USB Stick
Yes to your question 4 GB is large enough for CD size .iso images and some
DVD file sizes. This is the latest up to date information for Ubuntu & Flavors.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases End of life for releases 18.04.3 LTS 2028 // 19.10 July 2020
Use Etcher to load .iso image (OS) Ubuntu on a USB the easiest way.
https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Last edited by bernard010; January 17th, 2020 at 10:03 PM. Reason: Left out how to flash a USB
@Tom_Carr
It is not clear to me, from your recent posts, if you have progressed to running or even trying Ubuntu.
If we assume that you are still using Windows then one approach is to start by installing Rufus in Windows to burn into a USB or DVD a Ubuntu *.iso.
One tutorial here.
One of the fullest tutorials I have found in recent days is here.
I would bookmark it alongside many other posts. It can be confusing but half the battle is understanding the terminology.
On the matter of flash drives for the LiveUSB these can be purchased in most stores and supermarkets.
Check whether you have USB 3.0 or the older generation USB 2.0 ports.
Last edited by dragonfly41; January 14th, 2020 at 03:59 PM.
The most up to date discussion on Bootable USB drives is Howto make USB boot drives: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073&
It is probably overkill for your needs.
If you are making a bootdrive in windows either UNetbootin or Rufus are easy to use and work for both UEFI or BIOS computers.
Last edited by C.S.Cameron; January 15th, 2020 at 04:19 AM.
To complete the list of options there is an interim option which avoids the dual boot route.
It is to install VirtualBox in Windows 10 and then install a virtual Ubuntu image.
Tutorial here.
It could be a good interim step to learn Ubuntu. But remembet that it is a virtual Ubuntu machine running within Windows and factors such as memory size should be considered.
I have been using it for years, but have always installed with a CD or DVD. I will be making the boot drive on my computer running ubuntu 18.04.It is not clear to me, from your recent posts, if you have progressed to running or even trying Ubuntu.
I have been using ubuntu for a long time but am not a power user. I just know enough to install it and use the GUI and Chromium.
unetbootin always works for me for Linux / Windows. If it doesnt, use rufus
Bringing old hardware back to life. About problems due to upgrading.
Please visit Quick Links -> Unanswered Posts.
Don't use this space for a list of your hardware. It only creates false hits in the search engines.
4 GB is enough to create a live drive of all official Ubuntu versions and flavours. This is enough in order to install Ubuntu into an internal drive. (But if you want a persistent live drive (for example to use during travelling, it is a good idea to have a fast USB 3 drive with at least 16 GB.)
In this case I would recommend that you use the Startup Disk Creator, that is part of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
It is a robust cloning tool, very easy to use, I think the description in the previous link and the stepwise instructions in next link will be enough for you.
This link shows the official description by Canonical, the company that creates and maintains Ubuntu.
If you want a tool with more options, you can install mkusb via a PPA,
If you run standard Ubuntu live, you need an extra instruction to get the repository Universe. (Kubuntu, Lubuntu ... Xubuntu have the repository Universe activated automatically.)
Code:sudo add-apt-repository universe # only for standard Ubuntu sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa # and press Enter sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mkusb mkusb-nox usb-pack-efi
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