Copy the files you want to keep to another driveĤ. Download the required ISO file: (and choose and click) or …sktop-i386.iso (or from other country ….)ģ. Personal files will take up more than half of the memory or spaceġ. Persistence option desired (casper-rw file will exist for that) =How to create a Live USB with personal files easily and safely usable by Ubuntu, Windows XP, …=ģ2-bit computer (desktop -or laptop-, not netbook) iso image in to the root directory of your USB device. A file called “ldlinux.sys” will be created in the root direcotry of the USB device.Ĭopy the Ubuntu CD image in the root directory of your USB device (Contents of USB you can see as follows).If you are using i386 you need to copy the complete. Where sdbX is the device name and number of your USB device, check with “sudo mount”. Now use syslinux to install a boot sector on your USB device Install syslinux using the following command
Make the stick bootable: Use fdisk to set the boot flag, There, rename the file “isolinux.cfg” into “syslinux.cfg”. iso image and the i386 installer for an i386 iso.įrom the installation iso image you downloaded, copy the folder “isolinux” to the root directory of your USB device (right-click on the. In other words, you need a amd64 installer if you want to install an amd64 Ubuntu. Note: You need to have the installer that fits the architecture of your Ubuntu version you want to install. You need to download the files “vmlinux” and “initrd.gz”.
On the root directory of your USB device, create a folder “install”Ĭopy the installer kernel and the initramdisk into this folder (Download source below.You need the files “vmlinux” and “initrd.gz”).ĭownload source for the installer kernel and initramdisk Install Ubuntu as you would from a normal boot CDĪ running Ubuntu 8.04 or any ubuntu version installationĪ USB device (stick, pen-drive, USB hard disk) that has already been formatted with FAT32 and has enough free space to hold your Ubuntu installation imageĪ Ubuntu CD image downloaded from the Ubuntu servers or mirrors (*.iso file) or from here
CLEAN INSTALL UBUNTU FROM USB PORTABLE
This is handy for machines like ultra portable notebooks that do not have a CD drive but can boot from USB media.īoot the computer from your USB flash drive.
CLEAN INSTALL UBUNTU FROM USB HOW TO
This tutorial describes how to install Ubuntu by copying the contents of the installation CD to an USB memory stick (aka flash drive) and making the stick bootable.