Ubuntu 18.04 LTS live session should start. Once you select your USB drive from your BIOS, you should see the following window. On some motherboards, you press just after you pressed the power button of your computer. You want to go to the BIOS of your motherboard and select the USB drive you just made Ubuntu bootable with Rufus. How you do it depends on the motherboard you have.
Now close Rufus and your USB drive is ready.īooting from the USB drive and Installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Once it’s done, you should see READY status as marked in the screenshot below. Rufus should start making your USB drive Ubuntu bootable. If you don’t have any important data on your USB drive, click on OK. Now select the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS iso image that you’ve just downloaded and click on Open as marked in the screenshot below. Now click on the CDROM icon as marked in the screenshot below.Ī File Explorer window should show up. It should be detected by Rufus as you can see in the screenshot below. While Rufus is open, insert your USB drive that you wish to make Ubuntu bootable. If you have any important data, please move it somewhere safe before you go through this process. NOTE: Rufus will remove everything from your USB device. I prefer Rufus Portable.Ĭreating an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bootable USB with Rufus
Rufus download page portable#
Click on Rufus or Rufus Portable link as marked in the screenshot below. Now scroll down a little bit to the Download section. Go to the official website of Rufus from any web browser and you should see the following window. You can download Rufus from the official website of Rufus at Now click on Save as marked in the screenshot below. Scroll down a little bit and click on Not now, take me to the download as marked in the screenshot below. Now click on the Download button of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as marked in the screenshot below. Now click on Download Ubuntu button as marked in the screenshot below. Now click on Desktop as marked in the screenshot below. Go to the official website of Ubuntu at from any Web Browser. Downloading the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ISO Image
Rufus download page how to#
In this article, I will show you how to use Rufus to make a bootable USB drive from Windows and use it to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on your computer.