<div dir="ltr">Go out to: <div><a href="https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install?cp=close#1-getting-started" target="_blank">https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/try-ubuntu-before-you-install?cp=close#1-getting-started</a> </div><div>That page tells you how to install the ubuntu .iso file to either a dvd or a thumb drive. You can then try ubuntu before installing it. You can also install ubuntu along side windows and dual boot into it.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 2:35 PM Richard Goodwill <<a href="mailto:rick.goodwill@gmail.com" target="_blank">rick.goodwill@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.<br>
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All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.<br>
You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...<br>
For great justice.<br>
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<div><div><br></div><div>I have not been able locate a USB preinstalled image. Everything I find is do-it-urself with Rufus or something. I’ve heard of Rufus but never tried it myself. </div><div><br></div><div>The process here seems straight forward. <a href="https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/" target="_blank">https://www.tecmint.com/install-linux-os-on-usb-drive/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The trick here is to have 2 USB drives available. This allows you to boot the installer and then install onto a 4GB USB drive.</div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"DM Sans",sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"DM Sans",sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">You’ll need the following items:</p><ul style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em 3em;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style-position:initial;color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"DM Sans",sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px">A main USB drive (16GB or more), let’s call it the Main USB drive.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px">Another USB drive (4GB or more) or a DVD disk to use as bootable Linux installation media.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px">A Linux OS ISO file, such as Ubuntu 22.04.</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;border:0px">A PC with internal hard drives disconnected to prevent alterations to the boot record.</li></ul><div>Good luck,</div></div><div>-Rick</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 20, 2024, at 1:21 PM, Dave Serls <<a href="mailto:dave@dashs.denver.co.us" target="_blank">dave@dashs.denver.co.us</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div>Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.<br><br>All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.<br>You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...<br>For great justice.<br><br>On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600<br>pt <<a href="mailto:mnemotronic@gmail.com" target="_blank">mnemotronic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">From: pt <<a href="mailto:mnemotronic@gmail.com" target="_blank">mnemotronic@gmail.com</a>><br>To: "Meatloaf (Serls) Meatloaf" <<a href="mailto:meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us" target="_blank">meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us</a>><br>Subject: [Meatloaf] Am I looking for a "live" Linux distro?<br>Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 10:51:05 -0600<br>Reply-To: "Meatloaf, it's whats for dinner."<br><<a href="mailto:meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us" target="_blank">meatloaf@dashs.denver.co.us</a>> Sender: "Meatloaf"<br><<a href="mailto:meatloaf-bounces@dashs.denver.co.us" target="_blank">meatloaf-bounces@dashs.denver.co.us</a>><br><br>Official Joe's Spoon Reflector.<br><br>All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction.<br>You have no chance to survive make your time. HA HA HA HA...<br>For great justice.<br><br><br>I think I'm looking for something called a "live" distro that will<br>run off of a USB stick ... something that absolutely won't modify the<br>hard drives on the laptop I'm running it on. I'm trying to reacquaint<br>myself with Linux. I used Unix (PrimeOS) and Linux extensively in the<br>80s, 90s & early 2000s, but not since then. I'm familiar with command<br>line and use the Gnuwin32 tools a lot.<br><br>I have a Windows 7 Pro laptop that, for the time being, must remain<br>Windows. I've got some USB sticks<br><<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5K8E1A?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C5K8E1A?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1</a>><br>.<br><br>I'm considering Debian, SUSE, Ubuntu, Alpine and Kali.<br><br>I've tried Ubuntu via Unetbootin and it got to a point where it<br>looked like it wanted to repartition my laptop drives. I bailed on<br>that.<br><br>For setting up the USB stick I've downloaded Unetbootin, BalenaEtcher,<br>rawriteexe, Fedora Media Writer and ddrelease64. Etcher and<br>Unetbootin seem to be the least favored.<br><br>Q. Do I only look for releases / distros say they're "live"?<br><br>Q. Can any distro be convinced to run in "USB only / don't f*** with<br>my hard drive" mode?<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br></blockquote><br> Never used a live version of any distro, but most major distros<br> should have a USB stick version that can be copied to a stick large<br> enough. 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