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So you want to try Ubuntu MATE from a USB drive or SD card? Great! If you’renew to the process, you might be wondering why you just can’t copy the Ubuntu MATEimage on to your media and be good to go. To run an operating system, you needto write the image to the drive in a way that allows your computer to boot from it.

Ubuntu - Create bootable USB (Ubuntu) -In this quick tutorial I am going to show you how to create a bootable usb stick for Ubunut in Mac OSX.If you find.

Insert the USB drive, Open partition wizard. Now Select the USB, Right Click on it and select Format. Now Select the File system and Done! Now the next part Convert Bootable USB to Normal in Mac. By using Disk Utility program, you can easily format or restore your USB drive to the original state in MacOS. Just you have to follow. Installing 64-bit Ubuntu on 2007 Mac Mini (A1176) from bootable USB Due to the lack of support for newer Mac OS’s on older Mac Minis, I opted to wipe my mac and install Ubuntu over it. This was a nightmare to finally find a method that works, as the standard documentation from the Ubuntu website did not apply to my machine. Since it’s possible to boot and install Windows 10 from USB, that’s what I decided to do: download Window 10 ISO and burn it one of the USB sticks I have. This approach will be simpler for any other ISO image like Ubuntu or CentOS, so there’s a separate Steps 3-5 for them at the end of the post. Here’s a quick guide to creating a bootable USB drive on Ubuntu: In Ubuntu, click on the Show Application button and then use the search function to search for Startup Disk. Then, double-click Startup Disk Creator to open the application. Next, insert the USB driver that will act as the Live drive.

To install and try Ubuntu MATE from a USB drive or SD card, you’ll need mediawith at least 4 GB of memory and havedownloaded a compatible copy of Ubuntu MATE for your system.

Instructions

This applies to both USB and microSD cards.

If the downloaded file has a .xz extension, use 7-Zipto extract the .img file first.

Windows

Download the latest version of balenaEtcher.Double-click on the downloaded file to install.
Run the balenaEtcher application.
Click on the Select Image button and choose the Ubuntu MATE .iso fileyou want to use.
Click the Select Target button and choose the appropriate USB device towrite the .iso to.
Finally, click the Flash! button to begin the process.

It will show a progress bar as it operates.
Etcher will notify you when the process is complete.
Please remove the USB drive and plug it into the system where you want toinstall Ubuntu MATE.

macOS

If you plan on writing and using your bootable USB on Mac hardware, you’llneed to erase and reformat your memory stick using Apple’s Disk Utility,which you can launch from Applications > Utilities or the search function.

After launching Disk Utility, insert your USB stick, which will then appear.
- If it does not, check View > Show All Devices from the menu bar.
Select the USB stick, and select Erase from the tool bar or right-click menu.
Select the MS-DOS (FAT) format and GUID Partition Map from the respectivedrop-down menus.
Check (and double check - you can lose data if you select the wrong deviceor partition) that you’ve chosen the target USB stick and click Erase.
Download and install Etcher, an open sourceproject that flashes ISOs to SD cards and USB drives.
If necessary, open the ‘Security and Privacy’ section in System Preferencesand allow apps downloaded from ‘App Store and identified developers.’ If thisstill does not allow you to run Etcher, click ‘Open Anyway.’
Select the previously downloaded Ubuntu MATE ISO (which, by default, is inyour Downloads folder) using Select Image.
Confirm Select Target is pointing to the intended USB drive, and if not,choose the appropriate device.
Click Flash! to write the ISO to your USB drive. Etcher will prompt youfor your password. Etcher will display its progress, and inform you when theprocess has successfully completed with the image below.
If macOS informs you ‘The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer,’select Eject, not Initialise
To use your bootable media on a Mac device, insert the USB stick and restartor turn on the device while holding the option/alt key to launch StartupManager. Click on the gold disk labeled ‘EFI Boot,’ which will bring you tothe Ubuntu boot menu.

If you cannot boot from the USB drive on your Mac, try burning a DVD.

GNU/Linux

There are several apps and utilities for writing an ISO to a USB drive or amicroSDHC in GNU/Linux, but we prefer ddrescue (from the gddrescue package).

The image can be directly written to a microSDHC or to a USB drive using anutility like dd, but we prefer ddrescue (from thegddrescue package).

On a Debian-based system, like Ubuntu MATE, run:

To find the block device name of your USB or microSDHC device, to see all yourconnected devices:

For example, in the image below, the USB drive is /dev/sdb1/. Checking thename of your device is a key step, as writing to the wrong device might corruptor destroy your data.

Once you’ve confirmed you have the correct block device, enter the followingcommand replacing path/to/iso and sdx with the path to the iso file andblock device name of your USB drive or microSDHC.

Ubuntu/Ubuntu MATE

GNOME Disks comes pre-installed on Ubuntu 16.04 andlater. This is an easy way to create a bootable USB drive.

If Disks is not present on your system, you can install it from the terminal:

Download your chosen Ubuntu MATE image, keep note of the location, and insertyour USB drive. Be sure it’s visible in File Manager/Caja. Remember this processwill format your USB drive and erase all existing data, so be sure you’vebacked it up.
Right-click on the ISO file, and select “Open with Disk Image Writer.”
Select your USB drive in the “Destination” drop-down menu.
Click “Start Restoring.” When it asks if you’re sure you want to write thedisk image to the device, click “Restore.”
You may be asked for your password for authentication. Enter it and click “Authenticate.”
GNOME Disks will begin writing the image, showing its progress and anestimated time.

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When complete, eject (or power off) the disk before removing.

Contents

UNetbootin for Mac OS X can be used to automate the process of extracting the Ubuntu ISO file to USB, and making the USB drive bootable. The resulting USB drive, however, can be booted on PCs only. If attempting to make a USB drive that can be booted from a Mac, follow the instructions below.

We would encourage Mac users to download Ubuntu Desktop Edition by burning a CD for the time being. But if you would prefer to use a USB, please follow the instructions below.

Note: this procedure requires an .img file that you will be required to create from the .iso file you download.

TIP: Drag and Drop a file from Finder to Terminal to 'paste' the full path without typing and risking type errors.

Download the desired file
Open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/ or query Terminal in Spotlight)
Convert the .iso file to .img using the convert option of hdiutil
Note: OS X tends to put the .dmg ending on the output file automatically.
Run to get the current list of devices
Insert your flash media
Run again and determine the device node assigned to your flash media (e.g. /dev/disk2)
Run
(replace N with the disk number from the last command; in the previous example, N would be 2)
- If you see the error 'Unmount of diskN failed: at least one volume could not be unmounted', start Disk Utility.app and unmount the volume (don't eject).
Execute (replace /path/to/downloaded.img with the path where the image file is located; for example, ./ubuntu.img or ./ubuntu.dmg).
Using /dev/rdisk instead of /dev/disk may be faster.
- If you see the error dd: Invalid number '1m', you are using GNU dd. Use the same command but replace bs=1m with bs=1M.
- If you see the error dd: /dev/diskN: Resource busy, make sure the disk is not in use. Start Disk Utility.app and unmount the volume (don't eject).
Run and remove your flash media when the command completes
Restart your Mac and press alt while the Mac is restarting to choose the USB-Stick

Please notice: While all of the info and above commands are executed properly on a MacBook Air 3,2 (that is the 2010 version 13' version of the Air) the end result will not produce a bootable USB device, at least not with the image for Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit. When booting of the USB device the following message or something similar will appear: 'Missing operating system' and the process is auto-magically halted.

To get the USB device (e.g. a USB stick) to show up at all in the boot menu you also may have to reboot/turn on/off the computer a couple of times and also resync the partition tables using rEFIt. After doing this the USB should then appear as a bootable device while holding in the alt or c key when you are rebooting the computer. Notice that both the computers built in bootloader and rEFIt will identify the USB device as a Windows device, but that's not a problem and expected.

A workaround to the-usb-device-is-not-booting-problem is to:

Bootable Usb Ubuntu From Mac

Install rEFIt.
Create a bootable start disk using Ubuntu and a USB stick.
Create a separate partition on the Airs HD.
dd the whole USB stick to that partition.
Resync with rEFIt. Turn power off and on.
Select Pingo/Windows logo: Install should start. (Here you might want to press F6 to change parameters, e.g. use nomodeset)

Alternatively, burning a CD and installing via an external CD-drive will work fine on the Macbook Air 3,2.

(Moved from Installation/FromUSBStick)

We would encourage Mac users to download Ubuntu Desktop Edition by burning a CD for the time being. But if you would prefer to use a USB, please follow the instructions below. Note: this procedure requires an .img file that you will be required to create from the .iso file you download. TIP: Drag and Drop a file from Finder to Terminal to 'paste' the full path without typing and risking type errors.

Download the desired file
Open the Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities/ or query Terminal in Spotlight)
Convert the .iso file to .img using the convert option of hdiutil (e.g., hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o ~/path/to/target.img ~/path/to/ubuntu.iso)