How do I install Ubuntu using a thumb drive?

[Victor Padro]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Charlie Dorff <cy41169 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi again...
> I had asked earlier how to install Ubuntu using a thumb drive and got a
> response saying I needed to be more detailed. I first tried using Unetbootin
> to transfer Ubuntu 8.10 onto a 2 gigabyte thumb drive. Unetbootin requires
> broadband internet so I took my netbook to a coffee shop and used their
> wifi. After Ubuntu had finished downloading I checked to see if Ubuntu was
> on the thumb drive and it was so I rebooted my computer. When my computer
> started up Windows came up running. My computer didn't go into Ubuntu live
> mode. The second method was to run a cd in live mode and then in the menu
> selected make a USB startup disk. After the transfer was complete I put the
> thumb drive in my USB port of my netbook and again it went straight into
> Windows without going into Ubuntu. I finally purchased a thumb drive with
> Ubuntu 8.10 and the results were the same. I have an Inspiration netbook.
> Please let me know if I need to include anymore information. Thank you.
> Charlie
>
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You have to boot from USB first usually when the computers boots up press F8
or F12 on the keyboard and you could choose where to boot from.
on my HP it's F9, or you can change the bios settings to acomplish the same
task.

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