{"id":8215,"date":"2018-10-05T16:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T16:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8215"},"modified":"2018-10-05T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T16:13:55","slug":"create-live-usb-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/10\/create-live-usb-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Bootable Live USB Drive in Ubuntu 18.04\/18.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/usb-creator-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8216\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To do a fresh Ubuntu install, I&#8217;m always first burning the ISO image into USB drive, and then boot up with the USB drive and install Ubuntu into hard disk.<\/p>\n<p>I used to use <a href=\"http:\/\/unetbootin.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Unetbootin<\/a> to create the startup USB drive. However, it has been dropped from Ubuntu repositories since Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. And Unetbootin .bin package is not well burning the ISO image in my case.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unetbootin-bionic-450x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"287\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unetbootin-bionic-450x287.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unetbootin-bionic-600x382.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/unetbootin-bionic.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this quick tutorial, I&#8217;m going to tell you that the default <b>Gnome USB Creator<\/b> can do the job easier and more straightforward:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> First download Ubuntu iso from <a href=\"http:\/\/releases.ubuntu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">releases.ubuntu.com<\/a>, and plug-in your USB drive.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Search for and launch usb creator (Start Disk Creator) in application menu:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/launch-usb-creator-450x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"207\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/launch-usb-creator-450x207.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/launch-usb-creator.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> When it opens, click the <b>Other<\/b> button and choose the downloaded ISO image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/make-startup-usb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/make-startup-usb-450x328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/make-startup-usb-450x328.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/make-startup-usb-600x437.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/make-startup-usb.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally click the <b>Make Startup Disk<\/b> button to start burning the ISO into selected USB drive. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! When everything&#8217;s done, boot the USB drive in your machine and try or install Ubuntu.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To do a fresh Ubuntu install, I&#8217;m always first burning the ISO image into USB drive, and then boot up with the USB drive and install Ubuntu into hard disk. I used to use Unetbootin to create the startup USB drive. However, it has been dropped from Ubuntu repositories since Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. And Unetbootin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1581,971],"class_list":["post-8215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-live-usb","tag-startup-disk-creator"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}