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.

1. Linux Startup On A Flash Drive For Machine
2. How To Put Pictures On A Flash Drive

First of all you have to flash the image on a USB drive, I recommend etcher, that works on everything (Mac, Linux and Windows too) it's extremely easy to use and you just need to select the drive and the image and etcher will do everything by itself, plus it's free here. Download Linux Live USB Creator for Windows. 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. The definitive guide to installing Linux on a Macintosh Includes Installing EFI boot manager Converting Linux for mac Partitioning your hard drive & install. When I was booting first time Kubuntu from the flesh drive there were two icons of the flash drive, one saying EFI version and the other saying Classic.

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 ( 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 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. 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. Open the Dash and search for ‘USB Startup’. Launch the app, locate your.iso file, choose your USB drive (double check it’s the correct one!) and then hit ‘install’. You can also configure persistence though I’ve never had a USB boot when I’ve enabled this feature.

What’s your preferred method for creating bootable Linux USB drives? Let us know in the comments!

Actually, having the Boot Camp drivers has no bearing on whether or not Windows will boot. Mac Pro's require the updated ROM to be installed in order to boot any BIOS-based OS (Linux/Windows) but, as far as I know, this ROM update is already applied to all Mac Pro's. I would be cautious in saying that you can, in fact, boot Mac Pro's from USB thumbdrives.

Linux Startup On A Flash Drive For Machine

While booting OS X off a GPT partitioned thumbdrive might work, I can verify that booting Linux or Windows off a thumbdrive does not work on Mac Pros. It works on my Core Duo iMac but not on my Mac Pro.

How To Put Pictures On A Flash Drive

Either with rEFIt or by using the option-key method. Not to get in to an argument over semantics here, but by saying 'Windows should boot if you have installed the requisite Boot Camp drivers,' you are implying 'that the Boot Camp drivers [are] needed for Windows to boot.' I was just clarifying your post so people didn't get confused. As for booting a Mac Pro off a USB flash drive, if you have been successful in doing so, can you share with me your method? I've tried booting of an OCZ Rally2 4GB flash drive and it's never worked on my Mac Pro. It doesn't show up when I hold option down and if I try to boot through rEFIt, I get an error about my Mac's firmware not supporting USB booting (I have the latest firmware installed, too). I've tried GPT and MBR partitions, both to no avail.

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