I'm completely new to Ubuntu. I am looking for a version to test in Live mode on one of my Windows PCs by booting an ISO from a USB Flash drive. The version I downloaded, 24.04.1 LTS is 5.8 GB and the FAT32 file size limit is 4 GB. Yet, if I format to exFAT or NTFS, I doubt any of my computer's firmware, whether in BIOS or UEFI mode, will be able to boot from it. From what I've read, most firmware on motherboards must boot from FAT32. I haven't proven that though on my computers.
I have a Ventoy bootable USB flash drive (32 GB) as GPT FAT32 and I'm trying to drag the ISO file onto the Ventoy drive, but it's failing with the "The file is too large for the target file system." message. The Zorin OS and Mint distro ISO files all copied fine.
Is there a way around this?
Is there a smaller live version of that latest Ubuntu whose ISO is under 4 GB?
Thanks!
UPDATE
Thank you everyone. Unfortunately for my convenience, it appears I can't just drag and drop the large Ubuntu ISO to my Ventoy USB flash drive as I was hoping. I was successful following everyone's tips in creating a bootable flash drive using Rufus though. That will have to do. Thanks again!
