Questions related to live (bootable) USB devices, which allow you to test Ubuntu without installing, to install Ubuntu, or carry out tasks that can't be done from the mounted root filesystem, such as resizing partitions.
Questions tagged [live-usb]
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How to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from terminal?
Is there any way to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from the terminal without using any third-party applications like YUMI, Unetbootin, Startup Disk Creator, etc.
I tried to create a bootable Ubuntu flash drive with dd method,
sudo umount…
Avinash Raj
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Can't format Ubuntu installation stick
I've made an USB installer stick from Windows with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS , now I'm trying to format it from Ubuntu. When I try to format I get this error :
This partition cannot be modified because it contains a partition table; >please reinitialize…
Nephilim
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS live USB boot error (gfxboot.c32:not a valid COM32R image)
I downloaded Ubuntu 14.04 (64 bit) lts. I made a bootable usb stick. But I keep receiving this error message upon booting:
SYSLINUX 4.04 EDD 20110518 Copyright (C) 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
Unknown keyword in configuration file: gfxboot.c32:…
jamius19
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How to create UEFI-only bootable USB live media?
Having live media that can boot both ways can be a problem when installing Ubuntu onto currently available Windows 8 computers.
In other words the key advantage to creating UEFI-only bootable USB live media is: You know that it definitely booted and…
LiveWireBT
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How to create a bootable USB with multiple ISO images in it
What I want is to create a bootable pen drive that shows GRUB menu and I can select any of the several bootable systems from there to install/run. I have several ISO images that I want to install in the USB like Ubuntu, Fedora, System Rescue CD,…
Luis Alvarado
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Can I boot a Live USB fully to RAM, allowing me to remove the disk?
I have a live USB made with the standard Ubuntu disk image creator for 16.04 LTS. In the current state, I can boot to this disk, but it still requires the original USB to run properly at all times.
Attempting to pull the drive and use the system…
Kaz Wolfe
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How to boot from a USB drive in VirtualBox?
The question is simple and straight forward:
How to boot from an USB drive in VirtualBox?
EDIT:
I have attached usb to VirtualBox as shown in the screenshot.
But it is not possible to boot from an USB drive even when attached (reference).
So I…
Ravan
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How do I create an Ubuntu live USB using a Mac?
I'd like to create an Ubuntu live USB stick on a Mac to use to install Ubuntu on another machine. How do I accomplish this?
David Siegel
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How to make a persistent live Ubuntu USB with more than 4GB
I want to make a persistent live Ubuntu USB drive with more than 4GB of storage.
I know there is an option of installing directly on the drive but I don't want to do this as it will restrict the drive from working on different computers.
One…
Jakobovski
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"Continue button" grayed out in "installation type" screen during 13.04 installation
I'm installing Ubuntu 13.04 onto my 32-bit Intel Core 2 Duo CPU, from a live-usb. One of the screens says "Installation type", with the three options "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Vista" or "Replace Windows Vista with Ubuntu" or "Something…
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Failed to get canonical path of /cow
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 for quite some time, and passing hurdles one by one. Now I am in a situation as follows.
I have got a PC and 10 GB HDD which will be totally dedicated to Ubuntu so no option of Wubi and dual boot.
I was trying to…
ulkaNCST
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"Boot Error" on live-usb flash drive with 15.10
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 15.10 32bits on a Samsung NP-N150-JP05FR, with a live usb created with usb-creator-gtk (from ubuntu 15.10, as superuser) on a FAT32 usb flash drive and get this error :
SYSLINUX 6.03 EDD 20150813 Copyright (C) 1994-2012…
mxdsp
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Live USB on a 2-partition usb-drive
I was wondering if I could have 2 partitions on a USB-drive that would allow me to boot on my key as a regular USB-installation-disk (partition1), and another partition for regular storage under Windows/Ubuntu (partition2). I would like to have a…
MrVaykadji
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How do I burn the Windows 10 ISO to a USB?
I did the dd method and it wrote the iso to the USB drive, but I'm not sure that's all I have to do because it is Windows and may not have GRUB and I'm not sure so I'm asking the experts.
winusb does not work for Windows 10 so this is different…
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Installation of Ubuntu 16.04 from a USB drive freezes
I used to run Ubuntu on my old laptop alongside Windows 7, with Ubuntu installed second. Now I want to install Ubuntu 16.04 on my Asus
ROG GL553VW. It runs on Windows 10 Home 64-bit, and it has 1TB HDD, 16GB RAM, GeForce GTX 960M and an Intel Core…
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