How to install Ubuntu on a USB flash drive?

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Vincent2020-01-30 21:33:59

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Vincent, 2020-01-30 21:33:59

I downloaded the .iso image of Ubuntu from offsite, uploaded it to a USB flash drive via UNetbootin, everything works, the liveCD version starts up, but I can’t install the normal version on the same USB flash drive to save the data. I divided the flash drive into two partitions, in the first (FAT32) the installer (which, according to the plans, will be deleted after I do everything), the second is empty (NTFS). When I run Gparted, the entire flash drive with the key image, and the Ubuntu installer does not see the flash drive and, accordingly, does not offer to install it on it.

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pfg21, 2020-01-30
@pfg21

create two partitions on the flash drive, write the bootable iso into one.
boot from this partition and put ubuntu in the second partition.
then remove the first partition and grub-install

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Valdemar Smorman, 2020-01-30
@smorman

Booting from LIveCD/DVD/Flash.
Installing Ubuntu.
Everything is as usual.
Choose a flash drive.
You mark it up ...
And, as everything has already been written correctly above, but we must remember that GRUB must be installed on a flash drive, otherwise it will be installed on the computer's hard drive by default and when you try to boot from it from another computer, it will be ales - not hello!

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Andrey, 2020-02-01
@skobanev

You download iso, install through Balena Etcher or other software to create a boot flash. Boot from a flash drive and use it.
All installed programs remain on the flash drive. Only yam space is not very much.