Questions tagged [live-usb]
Questions related to live (bootable) USB devices, which allow you to test Ubuntu without installing, to install Ubuntu, or carry out tasks that can't be done from the mounted root filesystem, such as resizing partitions.
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What is the proper way of creating installation media from Ubuntu iso?
This is the third time I've tried to install Ubuntu Server 14.04.03 64-bit on the same laptop, and each time it caused different problems.
Each time I wrote the same iso image to a USB flash drive by ...
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Why Doesn't a Bootable USB Boot
This question is asked often in Ask Ubuntu, sometimes with few hints about the situation.
Please provide a list of possible reasons to help troubleshoot the problem.
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Can't format my usb drive. I have already tried with mkdosfs and gparted
I have a MicroSD card in a USB adapter (which plugs into a USB port on my machine, and acts like a USB flash drive). I was using Unetbootin to make this a bootable USB flash drive with Kubuntu. But I ...
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How to make a bootable Ubuntu USB on Windows/Mac/Linux?
How do I make an bootable Ubuntu USB containing the latest version of Ubuntu?
For completeness, how would I be able to do this on Ubuntu, Windows, Mac or another Linux distro?
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How to Create a Full Install of Ubuntu 20.04 to USB Device Step by Step
Every issue of Ubuntu LTS since 8.04, I have made a Full install of Ubuntu to USB flash drive, and recorded each step..
This has been intended to make a guide/check list for users wishing to create ...
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How do I install Ubuntu from an USB drive / create a live USB-stick in Windows?
I tried to use the usb-creator.exe from Ubuntu 10.10 desktop i386 ISO image and it does create an USB stick that doesn't boot. When I try to boot from it I get:
Operating System not found.
I try ...
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How to create UEFI-only bootable USB live media?
Having live media that can boot both ways can be a problem when installing Ubuntu onto currently available Windows 8 computers.
In other words the key advantage to creating UEFI-only bootable USB ...
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How to make a persistent live Ubuntu USB with more than 4GB
I want to make a persistent live Ubuntu USB drive with more than 4GB of storage.
I know there is an option of installing directly on the drive but I don't want to do this as it will restrict the ...
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How to change boot priority?
I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed as the only OS. I also have a USB stick with a Windows 7 installation on it. I want to install Windows from the USB stick on my laptop but when I try to restart ...
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"errno 5 - input/output error" when trying to install Ubuntu
Today I downloaded Ubuntu for my laptop. It runs great from a bootable USB, but when I tried to install it, I got the following error message:
The installer encountered an error copying files to the ...
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Easy Full Install USB that Boots both BIOS and UEFI
I need a method of creating a Full install USB that boots both BIOS and UEFI.
Full install USB's have advantages over Persistent USB's as shown here: Running live usb on 2 different PC's
I want to ...
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Bootable USB of Ubuntu Minimal CD
I want to burn Ubuntu Minimal CD ISO to an old, 1 GB USB thumbdrive. Regular ISO doesn't fit. I already tried Startup Disk Creator and Unetbootin but both failed. I tried installing GRUB and pointing ...
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How to create a bootable USB stick?
I am looking at this:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu
I need to create a boot disk to test Ubuntu to make sure it will run on a PC (Compaq Mini CQ10-120LA) I was ...
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How to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from terminal?
Is there any way to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from the terminal without using any third-party applications like YUMI, Unetbootin, Startup Disk Creator, etc.
I tried to create a ...
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What would be the differences between a persistent USB Live Session and a installed Ubuntu in a USB drive?
I'm a teacher and will ask my students to either bring their laptops with Ubuntu installed with an specific list of packages preinstalled or bring a USB Drive or External Hard Drive with Ubuntu and ...
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How is it easier to make a persistent live drive with Ubuntu 19.10?
Persistent live drive with a partition for persistence
There are some web sites describing
new tools
new features in [new versions of] old tools
that can create a persistent live drive from an iso ...
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Where can I get an Ubuntu Installation CD/DVD/USB?
I need to upgrade my existing Ubuntu system, and I also want to install Ubuntu on a new laptop. I would like to have an installation CD or DVD to do both of these. Where exactly I can order or ...
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How to create a bootable USB with multiple ISO images in it
What I want is to create a bootable pen drive that shows GRUB menu and I can select any of the several bootable systems from there to install/run. I have several ISO images that I want to install in ...
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Failed to get canonical path of /cow
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 for quite some time, and passing hurdles one by one. Now I am in a situation as follows.
I have got a PC and 10 GB HDD which will be totally dedicated to Ubuntu so ...
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How do I create an Ubuntu live USB using a Mac?
I'd like to create an Ubuntu live USB stick on a Mac to use to install Ubuntu on another machine. How do I accomplish this?
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How to use Cubic to create a custom Ubuntu live CD image?
How do you install Cubic and use it to create a customized Ubuntu live CD *.iso file that can be burned to CD/DVD or copied to a bootable USB?
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How to Create a Full Install of Ubuntu 22.04 to USB Device Step by Step
Every issue of Ubuntu LTS since 8.04, I have made a Full install of Ubuntu to USB flash drive, and recorded each step. Ubuntu installation method has changed since those days.
This has been intended ...
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How do I boot an ISO file from my drive using grub2 on UEFI machines?
I have a bunch of live ISO files like GParted, CloneZilla, Boot-Repair, Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit, ... downloaded in /opt and on my old BIOS machine, I used to be able to just add them to the grub menu and ...
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How do I make a persistent live USB of Ubuntu 16.04?
I need the persistent live Ubuntu of preferably 16.04 because I need to rescue my whole encrypted HDD of 16.04 as discussed in the thread How do I add myself back in sudo group in Encrypted HDD of 16....
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How do I get a live-USB to use a partition for persistence?
I want to install Ubuntu to a USB hard drive so that it will run on all systems, that can run the LiveCD and store persistent data on a regular ext4 partition rather than a casper-rw file. In every ...
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How to make a live Ubuntu 18.04 USB with a persistent storage of more than 4GB
After many unsuccessful trials based on almost everything about this topic on the Internet, I decided to ask this question again. There is almost a perfect answer in this platform, but it did not work....
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Multi-partition multi OS bootable USB
I want to create a recovery flash drive. I have my 8 gb flash drive[Kingston data traveller] with me. I also have the required .iso files for a>Ubuntu 13.10 b>Boot-repair disk c>AVG Rescue CD
I Wish ...
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Live USB for installation does not boot, black error screen followed by visual artifacts on a purple screen
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 desktop with Rufus on a computer with the following specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600
MOBO: ASUS Prime B450M-A/CSM
RAM: G-Skill Ripjaws DDR4 F4-2400C15D-16GVB
GPU: ...
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How to bypass "Try it / Install" screen when booting from USB Live Session? (without installing in the USB)
This has been asked several times already (I found it here, here and here), but basically everyone simply recommend to perform a full install to the USB stick. But I do need it to stay as a LIVE ...
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Can I boot a Live USB fully to RAM, allowing me to remove the disk?
I have a live USB made with the standard Ubuntu disk image creator for 16.04 LTS. In the current state, I can boot to this disk, but it still requires the original USB to run properly at all times.
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS live USB boot error (gfxboot.c32:not a valid COM32R image)
I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit) lts. I made a bootable usb stick. But I keep receiving this error message upon booting:
SYSLINUX 4.04 EDD 20110518 Copyright (C) 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
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How do I make a bootable USB from Windows?
I've downloaded the daily Ubuntu 12.04 iso.
I currently have windows 7 x64 operating system installed.
How can I make a bootable usb from the Ubuntu iso?
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How to Make BIOS/UEFI Flash Drive with Full Disk Encryption
Ubuntu 18.04 Full Disk Encryption now works on Full install flash drives.
The ability to separately encrypt home directory / home partition has been eliminated.
How to make an Encrypted BIOS/UEFI ...
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BIOS/UEFI Template Image for Booting ISO Files
The creator of mkusb has released an Template Image for creating BIOS/UEFI boot partitions on a USB.
How can I use this image to boot ISO files from a USB?
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Can I use a USB stick for a normal install? (to get platform adaptability)
So I know I can make a persistent LiveUSB whereby there would be anywhere up to 4GB (I think that's the max) of persistent storage for downloads, etc.
I am asking the opposite, in a sense. I'd like ...
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Installation of Ubuntu 16.04 from a USB drive freezes
I used to run Ubuntu on my old laptop alongside Windows 7, with Ubuntu installed second. Now I want to install Ubuntu 16.04 on my Asus
ROG GL553VW. It runs on Windows 10 Home 64-bit, and it has 1TB ...
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How to make a live usb persistent [duplicate]
I am running a live CD with Ubuntu 16.04 and I am trying to create a persistent image on a usb. I have tried everything, but nothing is working. I am on a Toshiba satellite c-50 b.
Please help, it ...
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Difference between LiveCD, LiveUSB, full-install, and persistence?
I am currently running Ubuntu as a guest vm on a Win 7 host via VirtualBox, but I would like to have a portable version of Ubuntu when I am not using my laptop.
I am unsure as to the difference ...
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How to make an USB Ubuntu installation more compatible with different computers?
I always have a keychain USB-drive with me and noticed a while back that Ubuntu can easily be installed on it. I've successfully used this drive to test other people's hardware for them and copy files ...
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Live USB on a 2-partition usb-drive
I was wondering if I could have 2 partitions on a USB-drive that would allow me to boot on my key as a regular USB-installation-disk (partition1), and another partition for regular storage under ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu 12.04/Windows 7
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7 dual boot. After installing Ubuntu my computer reboots straight to Windows. There is no option to boot Ubuntu.
Specs:
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium
CPU: Intel i5 ...
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Can I convert a live Ubuntu USB to one with persistent memory?
I know there are other posts about how to create a live ubuntu usb with persistent memory - HOWEVER, there is no [question / answer] on how to convert a live (ubuntu) usb to one with persistent memory ...
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How to modify partitions without a live USB/CD
Plenty of people struggle when they want to modify partitions on their running system. Frequently its because the partition they want to modify is mounted and when they run GParted the partition is ...
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Cannot update grub with parameters on live USB
I have booted from a live USB ("Try Ubuntu"), that also has a persistent option set (I used LiLi to create one) to do some tests for this pcie hotplug issue I'm having.
I'm trying to test some boot ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu Live USB Flash Drive with casper-rw persistent partition
So, I've spent the last day going through similar questions, and can confirm first that this is not a duplicate of:
Ubuntu Live-USB Using a "casper-rw" Partition
Persistent Ubuntu 14.04 USB fails to ...
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Why Doesn't my Bootable USB Boot
This question is asked often in Ask Ubuntu, sometimes with few hints about the situation.
There are many reasons a persistent USB might not boot
BIOS
USB not set as first hard drive in BIOS
Problems ...
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How can I install Ubuntu without CD?
My CD drive is broken,so I can't install Ubuntu from a CD.
Are there any workarounds for that?
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Can I install mkusb in Ubuntu live USB?
I want install mkusb in persistance live Ubuntu
COMRADE but I use mkusb in live usb Ubuntu not original Ubuntu so . How to install mkusb in persistance live usb(not original)
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How to fully install Ubuntu on USB Flashdrive? [duplicate]
Rather than to install dual-OS on my laptop, I would like to install Ubuntu on my flashdrive (USB flash memory, or whatever you call it). So, whenever I want to run my Ubuntu, I will just plug my ...
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Replace one Ubuntu with another from USB pen drive
I'm new to Linux. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. Now i want to install Ubuntu 12.04 .
I got an ISO image of Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop.
I put this image in to a pen drive which is formated,set the boot option ...
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