NOTE: This process creates a traditional live USB drive. RELATED: How to Create a Live Ubuntu USB Drive With Persistent Storage If you’re not sure which one to download, we recommend the LTS release.īelow, we’ll show you how to turn this ISO into a bootable flash drive on both Windows or an existing Linux system. Head to Ubuntu’s download page and download the version of Ubuntu you want-either the stable “Long Term Service” release or the current release. You’ll need to download an ISO file to do this-we’re going to use Ubuntu in our example, but this should work for quite a few different Linux distributions.
