Make absolutely sure which drive is the USB stick and which is the external hard drive. Using OSX you should see something like this (looks pretty much the same using Ubuntu): OSX terminal: $ diskutil list The # means this command is executed with sudo rights, normal user commands are marked with $ Now we are going find where they’re are located. Plugin both the USB stick (written with Rufus) and the preferred external hard drive. Write the USB stick to the external hard drive 2a.
#Rufus create boot partition on ssd how to#
How to find where the drives are mountedĢb. You can skip this chapter if you’re happy with the USB stick you’re using now.Ģa. I prefer an external HDD or SSD drive (optional) But if you’re happy with the USB stick you’re using now, you can skip to “ Make it persistent“.Ģ. Since Rufus can’t find external hard drives, I added the next chapter. If everything was successful, you should now have an USB stick which boots the Ubuntu Live CD on most Mac’s and PC’s. Select the Ubuntu ISO by selecting and pressing. Make sure you choose “MBR partition scheme for BIOS or UEFI computers”, this makes the USB stick bootable on most computers. The settings shown above speak for them selves. Write ISO file to the USB stick with Rufus: Rufus seems not to support external hard drives, so this is the part where we use the USB stick (next chapter explains how to write the USB stick to an external hard drive). Use Rufus to write Ubuntu ISO to USB stick Rufus is the easiest tool I could find which makes an USB stick that boots on Mac’s and PC’s.ġb.
I think this wouldn’t work since it uses some sort of EFI boot, which i s known not to work with 32bit.ĭownload Rufus here (at time of writing the latest version is 1.3.4). I did not try this with the 32bit version.
#Rufus create boot partition on ssd 64 Bit#
Download Ubuntu and Rufusĭownload Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit ISO here. Use Rufus to write the Ubuntu ISO to an USB stick 1a. – Mac or Ubuntu PC (for some terminal commands)ġb. – Windows PC (only for Rufus, all other stuff can be done with OSX or Ubuntu)
– Rufus to create a bootable USB drive (download here) If you prefer an external HDD or SSD drive (optional) Requirements:
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