At one point the progress bar will freeze until it is done, and this is the lengthiest wait of the process. This can take anywhere from 15 minutes to 30 minutes depending on the speed of your system. In this instance, we are going leave the persistence option unchecked. Select the Ubuntu Live CD that you downloaded earlierĥ. Run the Universal USB Installer by that you downloaded earlier.Ģ.
Now with all of the necessary components in place, we can begin to setup our Ubuntu Live USB Drive.ġ. Universal USB Installer available at įat32 Formatted USB 2.0 Flash Drive, at least 1GB Ubuntu 10.04 (soon 10.10) Live CD ISO available at This is a great way to get a feel for the OS, test some of it’s capabilities as well as typical hardware compatibility. Use this option to install Ubuntu as a Live Install, which allows you to boot from the USB flash drive in Ubuntu, experience the Linux environment but will not retain any changes or settings after you shut down. Option 1: Boot Ubuntu as a Live CD from a USB Flash Drive Only difference is that we’ll be booting and installing Ubuntu using this live USB diskette, and as last option how to do a full installation of ubuntu on your USB drive. We’ll see how to create a live USB Ubuntu disk, just like your live CD. In this article we’ll see 3 way of installing Ubuntu on a USB drive.
