USB Ubuntu Boot???

[SlacinAce]

Okay, so I'm  a complete amateur at OS and USB stuff, but I know you can install an OS through usb if I'm correct... And well, I have an old "Frankenstein" pc from class, and it has no OS on it. It is some early 2000 Dell with an Intel Pentium 4 Duo.

Back to the topic, I need help with this, I'm currently on my family desktop, and I'd like to install Linux or Ubuntu (Idk the correlation between Linux and Ubuntu bc I'm stupid) but I just want a free OS on that pc so I can do something cool with a useless pc... Please explain what I need to do, I currently have a 2gb USB drive, and that's it.

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[Guest]

Download Ubuntu ISO from the official site

https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

 

Make a bootable USB drive (just follow the instruction). Get RuFUs too

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows

 

Start PC and go to your BIOS (whatever the key shows) it should says something like: Press DEL to go to BIOS

MAybe not DEL or could be something else like F2. Be hurry those text go away quick

 

Change boot device to your USB. Restart again and it should go to the installation of Ubuntu. Follow the rest on screen

[YedZed]

3 minutes ago, SlacinAce said:

Okay, so I'm  a complete amateur at OS and USB stuff, but I know you can install an OS through usb if I'm correct... And well, I have an old "Frankenstein" pc from class, and it has no OS on it. It is some early 2000 Dell with an Intel Pentium 4 Duo.

Back to the topic, I need help with this, I'm currently on my family desktop, and I'd like to install Linux or Ubuntu (Idk the correlation between Linux and Ubuntu bc I'm stupid) but I just want a free OS on that pc so I can do something cool with a useless pc... Please explain what I need to do, I currently have a 2gb USB drive, and that's it.

 

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

Research whether that PC can even boot from USB. 

If it can: Download Ubuntu ISO from Ubuntu website. Put the ISO onto the flash drive. Plug flash drive into PC and boot up, making sure that the BIOS boots to USB.

If it can't: Install and optical drive if the PC doesn't have one already. Put Ubuntu ISO on a blank disk. Insert disk into old PCV and boot from it.

That's the gist of it. Tell me how it goes.

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Download Ubuntu ISO from the official site

https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

 

Make a bootable USB drive (just follow the instruction). Get RuFUs too

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows

 

Start PC and go to your BIOS (whatever the key shows) it should says something like: Press DEL to go to BIOS

MAybe not DEL or could be something else like F2. Be hurry those text go away quick

 

Change boot device to your USB. Restart again and it should go to the installation of Ubuntu. Follow the rest on screen

Is Rufus really necessary? I've done it without Rufus.

[Guest]

Just now, YedZed said:

Is Rufus really necessary? I've done it without Rufus.

How? Another program?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, YedZed said:

Research whether that PC can even boot from USB. 

If it can: Download Ubuntu ISO from Ubuntu website. Put the ISO onto the flash drive. Plug flash drive into PC and boot up, making sure that the BIOS boots to USB.

If it can't: Install and optical drive if the PC doesn't have one already. Put Ubuntu ISO on a blank disk. Insert disk into old PCV and boot from it.

That's the gist of it. Tell me how it goes.

If it specs does not meet the requirements then an optical drive won't be help much

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

How? Another program?

No. Simply copy over the files.

[Guest]

Just now, YedZed said:

No. Simply copy over the files.

I am pretty sure just copying ISO file won't work

[YedZed]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

I am pretty sure just copying ISO file won't work

Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly. Lemme see.

[YedZed]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

I am pretty sure just copying ISO file won't work

You are right. i suppose I remembered wrong. Sorry! 

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

ubuntu won't work on a 2000 year machine. you need something lighter. Maybe arch linux. I had to google what the drive capacities were in the year 2000. in 2000 I had a laptop that had a 1Gb drive. This article from '98 indicates desktops could have been around 10Gb in 2000.

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9901/21/honkin.idg/

I would be very surprised if the hard drive still worked.

 

You have many choices to resurrect your old dinosaur.

Spend money on it but its like spending money on an old car, it will still be slow.

See if you can find a Damn Small Linux CD off the internet

See if puppy linux will work

See if tiny core linux will work

 

but honestly scrap it because a raspberry pi will outperform it

[SlacinAce]

Thank you for all the help guys! I have used a program that is simple as a few clicks! I just selected my usb drive, chose one of the available os' it offered, and clicked start and it did everything for me!