The sticks are cheap enough anyway so it’s not a big deal. If there is a tab on the existing hard drive, gently pull it up and then to the outside to remove the hard drive from the bay. When you restart the system at the end of the installation, you will have a working Ubuntu desktop. Sure, you can simply reconfigure everything and get it working again relatively quickly for anything messed up, but that’s a bit of a hassle.įor each computer you want to boot a full-install-on-USB-stick distro from, it’s recommended you get a separate USB stick dedicated to each computer. Locate the hard drive panel on the bottom of your notebook (Refer to your user manual). Mount the flash drive using the Disks disk utility. If you take the USB stick after a full install and boot, then bring it to another computer with different hardware and boot from that, chances are high that the internal settings of the OS on that stick will get all messed up because it’s "expecting" a different the computer it was first booted from. What this means is that the OS will set itself to use the computer it is first booted from and configure itself as such. You should bear in mind that by installing a Linux OS on a USB fashion it will not be portable. When done you log out of Linux, shut down, power off, unplug the stick and reboot again to go back to the internal hard drive’s OS. If all goes well, whenever the USB stick is plugged into the computer and booted from a "cold start", it will always boot from the USB stick first whenever you want to go into Linux.
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