Hi friends, today i'm gonna to say about creating bootable usb disk. Usage of USB drives for bootable disk makes an Operating System installation is faster rather than usage of CD/DVD's. Normally usage of CD/DVD's takes more than 30 minutes to install a particular operating system and costs of buying CD/DVD's increases cost. Using pendrives to install OS's makes probably upto just 10 minutes to complete it. Pendrives are reformattable and we can use many times by just formatting it.
Let see how to use pendrives as bootable disks. To use pendrives as bootable disks, we must have to install some tools that allows to create bootable disks. There are lot of tools is available. Here we are going to choose the famous tool 'UNETBOOTIN' .
Unetbootin is a system tool that allows user to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Let see how to install it.
Unetbootin Installation :
Ubuntu based Distro users ==>
Windows & MAC users ==>
When you finished installation, Just follow steps to create a bootable disk.
Creating Bootable USB Disk :
Step 1 : Insert your USB drive. If any file needed from your USB, just copy the files to Local Disk.
Then Format the USB drive.
Step 2 : Ubuntu based distro users, Open UNetbootin by System Tools -> UNetbootin or go to unity bash and search it and get it.
Simultaneously windows and MAC users open installed UNetbootin software.
Step 3 : Now two ways to create bootable disk. One is downloading directly from net or choosing iso image file to create it.
My suggestion is choose Second option of " Disk Image ".
Step 4 : Now click browse and choose ISO file, which you wanna to make bootable disk.
Just select ISO file and Open it.
Now Select USB Drive, if you inserted multiple USB disks. Check above screenshot. In this i was chosen " /dev/sdb1/ " and press OK to create bootable disk. Wait for 4-6 minutes to install it.
When the installation is completed, Press Reboot Now option to install the OS or manually restart your machine to install it.
To Boot from USB, you must setup your BIOS settings.
Go to BIOS settings when your System is started and go to boot tab and Check the option " USB Device Boot First " is Enabled. Thats all. Enjoy to installing it.
If you have any queries, post it in comments, we will help you.
Let see how to use pendrives as bootable disks. To use pendrives as bootable disks, we must have to install some tools that allows to create bootable disks. There are lot of tools is available. Here we are going to choose the famous tool 'UNETBOOTIN' .
Unetbootin is a system tool that allows user to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Let see how to install it.
Unetbootin Installation :
Ubuntu based Distro users ==>
Step 1 : Open Terminal by Accessories -> Terminal or CTRL+ALT+T
Step 2 : To install unetbootin, copy the following commands one-by-one and enter in to terminal.
| sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gezakovacs/ppa |
| sudo apt-get update |
| sudo apt-get install unetbootin |
Windows & MAC users ==>
Step 1 : Go here to download setup fileStep 2 : Install UNetbootin with this setup file.http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
When you finished installation, Just follow steps to create a bootable disk.
Creating Bootable USB Disk :
Step 1 : Insert your USB drive. If any file needed from your USB, just copy the files to Local Disk.
Then Format the USB drive.
Step 2 : Ubuntu based distro users, Open UNetbootin by System Tools -> UNetbootin or go to unity bash and search it and get it.
Simultaneously windows and MAC users open installed UNetbootin software.
Step 3 : Now two ways to create bootable disk. One is downloading directly from net or choosing iso image file to create it.
My suggestion is choose Second option of " Disk Image ".
Step 4 : Now click browse and choose ISO file, which you wanna to make bootable disk.
Just select ISO file and Open it.
Now Select USB Drive, if you inserted multiple USB disks. Check above screenshot. In this i was chosen " /dev/sdb1/ " and press OK to create bootable disk. Wait for 4-6 minutes to install it.
When the installation is completed, Press Reboot Now option to install the OS or manually restart your machine to install it.
To Boot from USB, you must setup your BIOS settings.
Go to BIOS settings when your System is started and go to boot tab and Check the option " USB Device Boot First " is Enabled. Thats all. Enjoy to installing it.
If you have any queries, post it in comments, we will help you.
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