I am trying to install (not just a bootable for testing) 18.04 Bionic Beaver on a USB flash drive. So I could run it in parallel, upgrade wit the changes and even install a few programs… while still running 17.10 for work purposes on my SSD.
But I can’t seem to have it to work.
Probably a basic tiny detail…
I did it with 17.10 when it launched and finally did the full upgrade on my SSD. Just trying to replicate same, here.
Any link to good info page ? All I find relates to 16.04 & al and ask for swap…etc
Hello Watford! I think you are looking for a USB install with “persistence” , the ability to continue to add to the USB, distinct from your main drive. I think you ought to look at creating a USB linux drive with unetbootin. Sadly, it won’t work with my mac OSX, but the literature says it’ll work with Linux and Windows.
I love Etcher for it’s ease of use, but unetbootin will probably do the trick for you. Be sure to use a fairly large USB drive.
Etcher - doesn’t provide for install with persistence. It starts, no options possible.
Unetbootin - same as above
Taking a step into windows to use Universal-USB-Installer…
Windows says that my USB key has no space (while it shows a full usable 33G under UM) … And UUI option to create persistence is frozen, because of that windoze reading of the key.
Well…
Still in Windows I decided to use Rufus… it did read the volume (yeah!) and I installed (no persistence)
Then I went and used UUI again and this time around it did read the volume (installed using Rufus) and I re-installed, this time with persistence. Seems to work so far… writing this using Bionic from the USB. Will keep you posted, since now will get into trying to get some updates.
It did work at the end. With version Feb 6 of the UM ISO image.
Then did an update on the USB and it seems it completed well.
Will tweak and use a bit - just to check vs 17.10. Still working from 17.10 on my SSD though, with Win10 on the laptop HD (haven’t used windoze in any work fashion since last summer; except for things I can’t figure how to handle otherwise - like the above)
Will comeback here with anything that’s worth notice or shout for help…
So just so I know - would a 16GB flash drive/ USB stick using Rufus be Okay to put persistent Ubuntu-Mate 16.04 on-to, to thereby make fully operational for say a year or so, and learn to code on a ‘generic’ windows PC desktop ?
I don’t know if Rufus would be OK for including a persistence space. If you read me above, I went with UUI for that reason.
16G may be fine, bit if I were you, I’d go with a 32G flash drive if you are to use it for a whole year - techies here may be of a different opinion.
