But before you do, click on ‘Customize Hardware.’ My suggestions are: Memory=1GB, Processors=1. My suggestion is no less than 20 GB.Ĭlicking Next you will arrive on the screen to create the VM. The minimal version fits easily on 8GB but we will want room for some of our USB cloning. We will install a minimal version of Ubuntu. When you reach ‘Specify Disk Capacity’ I have some suggestions.

Enter this information over a couple screens. The next few steps will ask for some basic info like username, VM name, VM location. Select to install from the ISO option and point to the Ubuntu ISO. You will now be able to select the Installer Disc Image (ISO) of Ubuntu you downloaded previously. Start up the player and select ‘Create a New Virtual Machine’ or similar language that means new. Time to get a VM of Ubuntu up and running. Once download is complete, go ahead and install. Note, there is a player for Linux and the rest of the guide should apply to Linux as well. Go ahead and download the free version (version 15) of Workstation Player for Windows. We will create a Virtual Machine (VM) of Ubuntu. Let me introduce our chicken, VMware Workstation Player. In order to make bootable Ubuntu USB drives you must first have a running version of Ubuntu. This is the old chicken and the egg problem.

Next, we need a way to install Ubuntu to somewhere and then start creating bootable USB stick drives. While the download is happening let’s move on. Select the desktop version and for our purposes the current version is 18.04.1 LTS.

About an hour depending on system speedįirst, let’s download Ubuntu.

Know how to boot your system using a bootable USB.

At least two identical 8+ GB USB stick with USB 2.0+.Windows 7+ (this should also basically work for Linux).System: 1GB free memory, More than 1 processor, 64 bit OS, ~30 GB free space.

The Windows versions the following instructions will work for are Windows 7+.īefore we start, here is what you will need: This guide will focus primarily on how to do this on Windows although this will be vanilla enough to work on Linux as well. What I will explain is not only how to do this easily but also be able to make copies thereafter. There is plenty of good information on how to create a bootable Ubuntu USB stick drive.

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