In the top-right drop-down box select the USB drive (16GB in my case), and you should see something like below: To disable “secure boot”, follow this screenshot tutorial.ģ.

To disable “fast startup”, go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > System Settings > Choose what the power buttons do and uncheck the Turn on fast startup box. IMPORTANT: For Windows 8 pre-installed machine, you have to disable “fast startup” and “secure boot” features. Plug in the bootable USB drive to your computer and boot into the Live Ubuntu system. We will be using some other options available with the ‘dd command’ to create the Ubuntu bootable USB.If you need more hints, follow this screenshot tutorial to create bootable Ubuntu Live USBĢ. Note:- You might be required to use ‘sudo’ if you are using a non-root user. # dd if=source-drive-file of=destination-drive-path Whatever the case may be, take note of this drive letter for your USB drive as this is our destination drive for creating Live USB.Īs mentioned above, we will be using the dd command to create Live USB. Probably you will get the drive letter ‘/dev/sdb1’ if you don’t have additional drives attached to your system. Once logged in, insert the USB drive into your system & then we need to check the drive letter assigned to our USB drive using the following command, Login to your Linux system, it can be any Linux system as almost all the Linux distributions have the ‘dd command’ installed.

Once you have all these then, we can proceed to create a Ubuntu Bootable USB.

a Linux system (here we are using Ubuntu only but this tutorial will work for all Linux systems).

Ubuntu ISO file (get it from HERE Get Ubuntu | Download | Ubuntu).

USB drive / Pendrive with at least 4 GB capacity.

You will need the following to create a Ubuntu Bootable USB from the command line or CLI, Recommended Read: Simple guide on how to install LAMP on Ubuntu (16.04 & above)Īlso Read: Simple guide to install SSH on Ubuntu Pre-requisites Not only can we install or test Ubuntu, but we can also use it as a personal operating system that can be used on any Laptop or Desktop without having to make any major changes to the systems. If you are trying to install a new Ubuntu version or just want to see how a new version of Ubuntu looks like, then the best way to do so is to create and use a Live USB aka Ubuntu bootable USB.

How to make a ubuntu bootable usb 16.04