With the bootable USB containing the Ubuntu ISO inserted, restart the laptop and hold down F12 (star icon) to access the boot menu. This is where Ubuntu will sit eventually, so check you have allocated enough space. Once this is done, a new partition will be visible, labelled ‘unallocated’.

I left Windows with 80 GB of space, leaving 420 for Ubuntu. Reduce the size of the volume by the desired amount. In Windows, find the disk manager (>dskmgmt in windows command line) and select C: drive. Open Universal USB Installer, select the downloaded Ubuntu ISO image and the destination drive (the USB) and UUI formatting and click ‘Create’. I used Universal USB Installer .įind an empty USB drive with enough space (>2GB). It needs to be put onto a CD or USB that can be booted from, requiring some software. The Ubuntu ISO image for your system architecture is available here. It took a bit of trial and error for me so hopefully these notes will help someone trying to do the same. ' Persistence' is the ability, for a Linux Live distribution, to save the changes (like softwares, documents, parameters, etc) in the live USB across reboots.Here’s some notes on installing Ubuntu alongside Windows on a fresh Lenovo t470p with Windows 10 preinstalled.

Multiboot is environmental technology since it requires only a single storage device to boot multiple files. ' Multiboot' means that the tool allows multiple systems on the USB stick, as well as a bootloader on the USB flash drive to choose which system to load at boot time.Only those listed on Wikipedia are included. This is a list of utilities for creating a live USB.

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