Install Ubuntu / Xubuntu from USB

Rob —  July 29, 2014 — Leave a comment

Installing via USB is much better/easier than via cd/dvd simply because it’s not going to get scratched up, you can easily carry it around with you to loan to friends, etc..

Let’s set up a couple things – our usb stick is currently on /dev/sdb (find this out by typing tail -f /var/log/syslog (or /var/log/messages) when plugging it in. The image we’re going to write is xubuntu.iso.

From Linux command line:

From Linux GUI:
Some people like using the GUI to do things.. if that’s you, you’ll want to download ‘usb-creator’ (if you don’t already have it) and use that to write to your usb stick.

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