How to create bootable USB thumb drive with iso file

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 16:39, Charles IRONS <irons.charles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again Liam
>
> Sorry for the HD size error. 500 GB Win7 is right.

It's fine, we all do it. I sadly did it in real life once -- when
entering a size by hand, I created a 20 MB partition for Windows XP
instead of a 20 GB partition, and then I was baffled why the
installation kept failing.

> Thanks a million for your quick response with detailed instructions.
>
> I will do my learning and let you know the result in time. Maybe I will wait for 20.04.1 download , then do Win 10.

If you want, it's perfectly doable now. Ubuntu will not suggest the
upgrading an LTS until the point-one release, but you can do it
manually.

My girlfriend's spare MacBook is quite old (2008, Core 2 Duo with 4 GB
of RAM). It can't run any version of Mac OS X newer than 10.7 which is
so old that little modern software works any more.

So I set it up to dual-boot Xubuntu. I installed it with 18.04.4 and
it works, and fairly quickly, with the latest Firefox, Chrome, Skype
and LibreOffice.

Recently I gave it an update and there are some niggles with *buntu on
a Macbook. E.g. it thinks the machine is a desktop, not a laptop, so
it enables NumLock at boot. But MacBooks do not have a NumLock key or
an LED to tell you, so the effect is that half the keyboard does not
work and the other half gives numbers. So you can't enter your
password and log in.

I found this described but the only workaround was to use Fn+F6 to
turn off NumLock. The problem is that you can't see if it worked, and
if you press it twice, it goes back on.

I tried updating to 20.04 with:

 sudo do-release-upgrade -d

as per https://www.linuxtechi.com/upgrade-ubuntu-18-04-lts-to-ubuntu-20-04-lts/

This worked perfectly, but It did not fix the login problem. In fact
it was worse, because 20.04 knows it's on a Macbook so it disables the
"traditional" function keys and instead they adjust brightness,
magnification, high-contrast etc. You can't turn off NumLock any more!

But now, the problem is described, and there is a one-line fix to tell
the machine to leave NumLock disabled at boot. I set this and now the
machine works fine, login works without issue, and some other small
niggles went away too.

I would say 20.04 is ready for prime time, myself.

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