I'm an expeienced Ubuntuist but I've hit an istallation snag. I've just acquired a Framework laptop. It powers on but there's no OS of any description on it. I've downloaded U22.04 to a 2 TB USB drive but, when I boot the laptop, the BIOS sees nothing at all and just tells me I need to install a boot drive. I have no other computer available to me, just this Android tablet with limited storage space. Is it an issue of my USB device not being bootable? If I had a Windows or Linux box, I'd know how to proceed but, without that, I'm totally lost. How do I make a USB image visible to the BIOS?
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Boot Ubuntu on Windows UEFI computer without USB or DVD
There are a number of ways to make a bootable drive without need for a USB.
Use Windows Disk Management to create 4GB FAT32 partition on the Target disk.
Copy/Paste contents of ISO file to the new partition. I use 7Zip or P7Zip
Reboot pressing F2, F9, F10, F12, etc and select UEFI Ubuntu to boot.
Install Ubuntu to a 25+GB partition on the target using the "Something else" install option.
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Have you flashed the ubuntu image to the drive to make it a bootable drive or have you just copied the file across? You need to use a tool like Etcher to write your Ubuntu image to the drive to ensure that the BIOS can see it and boot from it.
There's a good guide here that you can follow: https://itsfoss.com/intsall-ubuntu-on-usb/
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