Step 8: Insert the USB drive you want to make bootable and select it from the list. Step 6: Click on “ Next” and then click on “ Finish”. Step 5: Wait till the installation finishes. Once the installer starts, click on “Next”. Step 3: Once the download is finished, double click on the installer. Now that we have all the tools and software that is required to follow this tutorial. Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 are fine. How do we make bootable Ubuntu USB? Keep reading to learn how.

That’s enough talk about how bootable USB can be better than bootable DVD’s, let’s just go back to the main subject. But with USB flash drives you can use persistence to run Ubuntu Linux from an USB just like a normal installed Ubuntu. With DVD installation media persistence can’t be used. The same thing cannot be done with a DVD. When a updated version of Ubuntu arrives, it can simple be made into a bootable USB drive. Because USB drives are cheaper and more flexible. These days, people don’t use DVD burners that much for installing Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. We all know Ubuntu Linux can be installed by burning the iso image to a DVD or by using a bootable USB drive. In this tutorial we are going to create a bootable USB for installing Ubuntu on a Desktop/Laptop.

How to make a ubuntu bootable usb 16.04