Make a bootable internal drive to install Ubuntu on current drive?

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Solution 1

You can try either making a bootable flash drive or unetbootin.

Unetbootin will run on Windows. When installing the Ubuntu Desktop ISO, choose the free drive as the location to install into, then boot from your drive.

Unetbootin home page

Solution 2

One way would be to write your .iso directly to the disk.

sudo dd if=UbuntuImage.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M

Replace the X in sdX with your storage device letter. To find out which it is, you can use lsblk which will list your storage devices. In my case my drive that I have is "sda".

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sda 8:0 0 37.3G 0 disk ├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 3G 0 part [SWAP] └─sda1 8:1 0 34.3G 0 part /

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • Artur Kirillov
    Artur Kirillov about 1 year

    Is it possible to mount/burn Ubuntu 10.10 on a clean Drive, so that I can boot using that drive with the ISO image and install the OS on my other internal drive, while currently being in Try Ubuntu state?

    My problems is that the DVD drive is corrupted and does not burn ISO properly; after install the hard drive wont boot. The only way is to use that CD to get my computer running in Try Ubuntu state.

    Downloaded the new Ubuntu 10.10 ISO and trying to figure out how to make my 2nd internal hard drive become a bootable device so I can choose from to boot in BIOS.

    • r0101
      r0101 almost 12 years
      I think that it would help us if we knew the model of the machine and the OS that you are trying to do this from. There are differences between hard disks, CD-ROMs and USB memory sticks but data is just data as far as the medium is concerned. You may have an issue with the ISO burning program. It may not accept a hard disk as suitable media. Then again it just may accept it, not knowing any better. Then all you have to do is boot from this hard disk first. Doing what you want is not beyond the realms of possibility, in my opinion.
    • Artur Kirillov
      Artur Kirillov almost 12 years
      The issue is I can not burn it to the hard drive that is empty I cannot find a suitable software. Second I have ubuntu installed on my primary hard drive , since I used the CD to make a fresh install and the CD was corrupted , I was not aware of the fact that now My hard Drive is not GOING to boot, being able to Have the COMPUTER running AT ALL is through TRY UBUNTU option on the CD