Creating a Bootable Usb for Ubuntu 16.04 using Ubuntu

After a recent failure of system due to bad sectors in hard disk. I decided to upgrade my system to next LTS. Welcome 16.04.

If you are using Ubuntu Os to create the bootable usb here are your options.

1. Startup Disk Creator
2. Unetbootin
3. mkusb

There may be other options but these are the most popular ones.

The following is purely based on my experience.

Startup Disk Creator

Doesn't work. Tried using Startup Disk Creator from an old Ubuntu 14.04 LTS x86 Live Cd. The bootable created didn't work while attempting to create a 64 bit Ubuntu 16.04 USB.

Unetbootin 

Fails. At boot-time displays missing operation system error

Terminal

Using dd command with if and op options. Fails to boot using this method.

Mkusb

This is the only tool that works.
Format  your pendrive to a new fat32 file system.
And then use this tool.

Offers a nice gui and if you are used to text based user iterface , it also offers a terminal interface.

For steps refer here: https://calvin.me/create-persistent-ubuntu-16-04-live-usb-even-boots-ram/

The above article is for persistant USB device but it works fine for live only USB also. I would recomend creating a live USB only, unless you are planning to really use the bootable PD as portable OS.



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