For installing Linux to your PC, this is fine-but if you want a live USB that keeps your changes so you can use it regularly on different computers, you’ll want to check out these instructions instead. When you run it, none of your chances (like installed programs or created files) will be saved for the next time you run it. NOTE: This process creates a traditional live USB drive. RELATED: How to Create a Live Ubuntu USB Drive With Persistent Storage If you’re not sure which one to download, we recommend the LTS release.īelow, we’ll show you how to turn this ISO into a bootable flash drive on both Windows or an existing Linux system. Head to Ubuntu’s download page and download the version of Ubuntu you want-either the stable “Long Term Service” release or the current release.
You’ll need to download an ISO file to do this-we’re going to use Ubuntu in our example, but this should work for quite a few different Linux distributions.
