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Foundations: USB installer

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Foundations: USB installer

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- [Instructor] If you want to install Linux on a computer directly, what we'd call a native or bare metal installation, you'll need to get the installation disk image onto something that a computer can boot up from. While the disk image that we've downloaded from a distro's website is for an optical disk, like a DVD-ROM, many computers these days don't have an optical disk drive. Instead we can put the contents of the installation disk image onto a USB thumb drive. USB thumb drives are fairly inexpensive. In the case of the Ubuntu 1804 installer, we'd need one that can hold two gigabytes, which is pretty common. A brand new two gigabyte flash drive can be had for about $7 US, and you may already have one in a drawer somewhere. If your drive is USB 3 and the computer you're using to make the installer has USB 3 you might have time to skim your Twitter feed while the process completes. If it's USB 2 plan to enjoy a cup of coffee or something during the imaging process. And if you're…

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