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I have a USB that I have installed Ubuntu on, not the USB installer package. I would still like to be able to install Ubuntu on other systems using this drive however. Problem is the 'Install Ubuntu' icon disappears once it's installed somewhere...

Is there any easy way to get it back? The installer?

Joshua Chamberlain
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It all depends on your definition of "easy":

  1. is there a 1 second solution of pointing you to the right executable and presto, it's back?
    Sorry, no
  2. Can you download the ISO again onto your existing partition and boot from that?
    Sorry, no

  3. Can you:

    1. Download the ISO again
    2. Burn it to another USB
    3. Boot that USB in "Try Ubuntu" mode to repartition your first USB to have enough space to contain the second USB
    4. Boot the primary USB and dd the second USB onto the partition of your first USB
    5. Add the second partition on your primary USB to the grub menu
      Well, yes!

But then, you might as well stop at #3.2. and just use 2 USBs: one to install and one to use.

And that's the easiest solution! ;-)

Fabby
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