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With a bootable Ubuntu USB stick, you can:
- Install or upgrade Ubuntu
- Test out the Ubuntu desktop experience without touching your PC configuration
- Boot into Ubuntu on a borrowed machine or from an internet cafe
- Use tools installed by default on the USB stick to repair or fix a broken configuration
Bootable USB drives are very popular because they're convenient to carry around and can hold a lot more data than ever before. Anyone who works regularly with computers, whether Windows, Linux or Mac, at the system level will appreciate the convenience of pen drives over traditional physical disks. Dec 21, 2016 Creating a Bootable Live USB for Linux Distros To live boot into Linux on Mac, you will first have to create a Live USB for the distro you want. We’re demonstrating this using Ubuntu 14.10 “Yakkety Yak”, on a MacBook Air running the latest version of macOS Sierra. You can download Ubuntu from the official website, for free.
Creating a bootable Ubuntu USB stick from Microsoft Windows is very simple and we’re going to cover the process in the next few steps.
Alternatively, we also have tutorials to help you create a bootable USB stick from both Ubuntu and Apple macOS.
With Ubuntu 16.04 LTS inching ever closer to release, now feels like a good time to recap how easy it is to make an bootable Ubuntu USB drive.
Just like the live CD, a live Linux USB allows you to boot Ubuntu on your machine without needing to install it on your hard-drive. Live images are a useful way to test hardware compatibility (things like Wi-Fi drivers, touch-screens, etc) before committing to a full install.
In this article we show you 3 ways of making a bootable thumb drive on the 3 major desktop operating systems: Windows, OS X and Ubuntu.
How to Create a Bootable Linux USB Drive on Windows
Our preferred tool for creating bootable Ubuntu sticks in Windows is ‘Linux Live USB Creator’ – often called ‘Lili’ for short.
The free and open-source app is incredibly straightforward to use. Just follow each step in turn. It’ll even download the .iso file for you if you don’t have one to hand.
If you don’t like this app (or can’t get it run) there are alternatives, including Rufus (Github link)
How to Create a Bootable Linux USB Drive on Mac OS X
For an OS that’s prized for its simplicity it’s strange that creating a bootable USB on a Mac is not easy.
But it’s not impossible, either.
Canonical recommend a command-line method to create a bootable USB with Ubuntu on Mac O SX. The instructions are concise though the process is involved.
For something less longwinded you could give the open-source, cross-platform UNetBootin app a go.
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It has to be said that while the success rate of images created using this app is poor (you can’t use the USB’s it creates to boot a Mac, for instance) it is the ‘easiest’ way to create a bootable Ubuntu USB on Mac OS X.
Like LiLi above, Unetbootin can even automatically download a Linux distro .iso file, which is handy if you feel the itch to distro hop but don’t know exactly which flavor to try.
Remember that to boot from a USB on a Mac you will need to hold down the Alt/Option’ key during boot.
Other GUI alternatives include
How to Make a Bootable Linux USB Drive on Ubuntu
Ubuntu comes with an app to create live USB drives already installed.
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Open the Dash and search for ‘USB Startup’.
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Launch the app, locate your .iso file, choose your USB drive (double check it’s the correct one!) and then hit ‘install’.
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You can also configure persistence though I’ve never had a USB boot when I’ve enabled this feature.
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What’s your preferred method for creating bootable Linux USB drives? Let us know in the comments!