Contents • • • • • • • • • This guide will help you install Ubuntu on your computer by using a USB memory stick. USB memory sticks are sometimes known as flash drives, memory pens or USB Mass Storage devices. Installing from a memory stick is useful if you have a computer without a CD drive (such as a netbook), or prefer the convenience of a memory stick. Creative T6100 Drivers Windows 7.

Alternative methods are available. It should take around 30 minutes to complete this process, plus the time it takes to download the 700MB installer file. Downloading from a torrent is by far the fastest way of getting it. This guide will assume that you are running Windows This guide will assume that you are running Windows. More comprehensive documentation which covers other operating systems is available. What do I need to get started?

To install Ubuntu from a USB memory stick you need: • A memory stick with a capacity of at least 2GB. It will be formatted (erased) during this process, so copy any files that you want to keep to another location. They will all be permanently deleted from the memory stick. • A computer that can boot (start-up) from a USB memory stick. Many older computers can't boot from USB – check the boot options in your BIOS (see Start the Ubuntu installer) to see if yours can. • A computer with • at least 384MB of system memory (RAM) for Lubuntu Alternate 32-bit.