Install Ubuntu Linux using a bootable USB Flash Drive on any Computer
Why Ask Ubuntu recommends it
Ask Ubuntu answerers link it when newcomers struggle to create a bootable USB stick, boot from it and install Ubuntu on a PC.
Recommended by 4 people across 4 different months, 2013 to 2021.
What it is
A 2013 screen-recorded walkthrough by the sakitech channel showing how to build a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive and then install Ubuntu on a spare laptop. It lists the files and tools to download and goes through the install step by step.
What people said
Recommends Dexobox · 2013-11 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Ubuntu works in try out but not when installed, how to fix?”
I think a few youtube videos should help : We all have been there at the newb stage, just watch guides and stuff lots of resources, i think you are screwing up at the installation of ubuntu from the USB drive, but that would be much clear after watching Watch Videos [this video]
Recommends LubuntuMini · 2014-07 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Install Ubuntu HP Mini”
[this video] Watch this and download that usb program. Just make sure to select lubuntu and the rest is pretty intuitive. You'll have a working usb stick to install lubuntu on the hp mini.
Recommends interface · 2015-08 · Ask Ubuntu · on “Problem in booting with USB stick to install Ubuntu”
When turning on your machine boot to your BIOS settings by pressing the key F2, or other F[number] if you have different machine settings. Use right arrow key to move to the "BOOT" menu right on the top of your screen, the you will see a list of Boot inputs (DVD Drive, USB, Disk Drive, or whatever), I think you will find your Disk Drive on top of the list because the logic of boot of the computer says "I search for boot sector in number1 of the list, if found I Load that system else I move to the next in the list if found I load that system else I move to the next and so on until it finishes all the Boot inputs (the boot list)". So you want to see "USB Drive" on top of the list, look down th
Recommends Tms91 · 2021-09 · Ask Ubuntu · on “How to reinstall Ubuntu on a PC without internet connection and having Ubuntu Server version OS (no Desktop GUI) from a iso got via USB drive”
SOLVED I was missing a very basic concept of installing OSs, doing it by booting! By following Sakitech's tutorial [this video] , I turned my PC on, started pressing F2 continuosly as the PC firm logo and a loading bar was showing up. This activated the BIOS menu. From here, I changed settings in menu system > Boot sequence in order to have the PC trying to boot first from USB storage drive, then from HDD. (I used key space to insert or remove the booting source from the sequence, and keys U and D to move the sources up and down along the boot sequence. Then I pressed esc and selected save and exit , as a menu popped up asking me if I wanted to save the settings. Then I shut down the PC from the