If you can post the exact model, vendor, of the computer or motherboard, (or better google it with "ubuntu install", any difficulties that others have solved might come up in the results. You're warned that the USB drive will be wiped clean, and you're shown the details of the drive so that you can confirm it is the drive you intend to format. Select the 'exFAT' radio button, then click the 'Next' button. The older the computer, the more likely there will be issues. Type a name for your USB drive, select the 'Other' radio button, then click the 'Next' button. that should flash the screen 1-3 times and some text might show up as it boots. If the flash drive does show up and you've correctly created the boot flash, select it. your computer runs Linux, you can use any disk formatting utility to format the SD. The flash device should show up in that menu, if it doesn't, there are a few possible problems. You can use any USB mouse and keyboard as well as any HDMI display. press the "magic key" to get into the boot device menu. If you are creating a bootable flash drive from Windows, boot into windows, push the flash drive in, use the tool to "burn" the ISO to the flash drive. Just google "linux" and your town or local college or local university or metro area or makerspace name to see if they can help. Ours requires being signed up to ensure we had enough volunteer helpers for everyone during the day. My LUG is having an "InstallFest" tomorrow with over 130 people signed up in collaboration with the local University. 5+ yrs, maybe longer.Īnother option is to find your local Linux Users Group, LUG, contact them and see if they can help. Sometimes nerds forget to say the obvious stuff. Usually they work fine for storing data, but booting is a different issue completely. I've seen this with all sorts of flash drives. Just last week, I ran into a cheap flash drive from a user at our LUG which wouldn't let my laptop create a bootable install, but did let someone with another laptop do it. There is also the possibility that the flash drive and computer aren't compatible for this sort of operation. My Mom ran Lubuntu on a Pentium4 in 2010 and was very happy. If you want a low resource, Linux that **is** official from Ubuntu, then Lubuntu is probably what you want. I'd never heard of Linux Lite - it is NOT an official Ubuntu flavor. I call this the "Magic key." F12 might be it or F10 or F8 or F2 or ESC or DEL or. Just depends on the specific BIOS installed. Some use F2, others F10, still others ESC. If F12 should be pressed or not is a question about your specific hardware. The Linux-Lite manual has a video showing what you are asking, I think:
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