Create ISO Media

Requirements

You will need:

  • A 4GB or larger USB stick/flash drive

  • A computer running Windows 10 or later

  • Rufus, a free and open source USB stick writing tool

  • An Ubuntu ISO file. Here are the download links

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Note

If you plan on running your machine in a headless (without a monitor) configuration use Ubuntu Sever otherwise use Ubuntu Desktop

USB selection

Perform the following to configure your USB device in Rufus:

  1. Launch Rufus

  2. Insert your USB stick

  3. Rufus will update to set the device within the Device field

  4. If the Device selected is incorrect (perhaps you have multiple USB storage devices), select the correct one from the device field’s drop-down menu

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Drive properties and Format options

Danger

This process is going to wipe your USB device so make sure to backup any important files elsewhere.

  1. Under the Drive Properties heading go down to the Device dropdown menu and select the USB drive that you wish to use.

  2. In the Boot selection section click the SELECT button and select your desired Ubuntu image.

  3. For the Partition scheme make sure that it says MBR

  4. For the Target system make sure that it says BIOS or UEFI

  5. At this point you can edit the Volume label under Format Options label your USB device after formatting.

  6. You can leave the other options as is and press the START button

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If after you click START you get an popup that looks like this click on the recommended option and then press OK

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Writing the ISO

During this stage the ISO will be written to your selected USB device. While in this state it will look something like this. At this point just leave it to copy all the files.

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Installation complete

Once the Rufus screen looks like the screenshot below you are done. At the end of the install process it will ask you to restart. Just click Restart Now in order to do so.

success

Yayy!!! You have successfully created your ISO image.

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