Mostly, it lists the pros/cons without specifically explaining things.įor example, I was offered a choice of creating a 4GB casper-rw file. There is documentation for persistence, but you know you're in trouble when it starts by defining the word, as if 6-year-olds were interested in installing Linux. This is not clearly stated but seemed to be true in my testing. If you disable persistence, then your USB flash drive will, like a CD, be exactly the same every time it's booted. The last step, persistence, is poorly documented.
When I ran it, the only drive letter I could use was, in fact, the correct one. Next, you point it to the drive letter with the USB flash drive. In my case, it automatically found the ISO file.
Ubuntu download usb bootable software#
Then you point the software to the already downloaded ISO file.
Ubuntu download usb bootable install#
The first step to running the Universal USB Installer is to chose the Linux distribution you want to install onto the flash drive from the list of supported distributions.
In the old days, I used to create a CD, boot to it and then use the included Startup Disk Creator from within Ubuntu to create a bootable copy on a USB flash drive. I was pleasantly surprised that the Ubuntu download page now includes instructions for installing the system onto a USB flash from Windows, OS X and, of course, Ubuntu. My USB flash drive with Linux was getting a bit old, so I set out to create a new one with the latest version (10.10) of Ubuntu.