It may be that, on completion of the creation of the USB drive, a dialogue box pops up that says The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer. Don't be tempted to interrupt the process in any way be patient and wait for the confirmation from Terminal that the process has completed. Sit tight, it will take a few minutes to complete. It is also important to note that there is no indication or display of progress whilst Terminal executes the command entered. Once the password has been entered, press the Enter key. Though the cursor does not move, Terminal is accepting the characters that are being entered. Note, when you enter the password, you will not see the characters or any asterisks as you might expect. It will be necessary to enter the Mac's admin user password in order to proceed with this command, so enter the password at the Password: prompt in Terminal. sudo means substitute user do and gives you greater privileges to carry out a command that you would normally not be able to execute.Sudo dd if =/Users/johnnywinter/Downloads/ of =/dev/rdisk2 bs =1m
Open Terminal and enter the following command: This is done with the hdiutil command in Terminal. It is first necessary to convert the downloaded.
The LTS denotes that this version is a Long Term Support version, in other words this version an LTS version includes updates for new hardware, security patches and updates to the Ubuntu stack for a period of five years following the version release. In my example, I want to create a USB drive for fairly low-specced Windows PCs, so I have selected 32-bit (for machines with less than 2GB RAM) then click the Download button.Īt the time of writing, the current version of Ubuntu is 14.04 LTS which was released in April 2014. In the dropdown menu, under Choose your flavour, ensure that you select the appropriate version. Open a web browser and navigate to the Ubuntu download page. How to Create a Bootable Ubuntu USB Drive In this tutorial I'll show you how to use Mac to create a Ubuntu USB drive that can be used on a PC. Regardless of whether you have thousands of workstations, or not, experimenting with Ubuntu from a USB drive is a good way to get an introduction to this interesting and alternative operating system. Since its first release in October 2004, it is estimated that, in 2011, Ubuntu had in excess of 20-million users worldwide and it is being increasingly adopted for large-scale public sector deployments, notably the Gendarmerie Nationale, thus replacing expensive Microsoft Office licences with OpenOffice for 5,000 workstations. Based on Debian Linux, Ubuntu is estimated to be used on more than 26% of all Linux websites.
Ubuntu, a Nguni Bantu term meaning Human-ness, recently released version 14.04 LTS (Long Term Support) codename Trusty Tahr.
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