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DaRealPigBaby
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so recently I started looking into Linux just to see if there was an alternative to windows or mac os so I decided that with my old laptop I would run ubuntu so I grabbed a 16gb flash drive that I had laying around with nothing on it so I formatted the USB so it would be a boot drive downloaded ubuntu from the ubuntu website and then I moved it from my download folder onto my boot drive plugged it into my laptop edited the boot sequence to boot from the boot drive first saved and exited then it said that an operating system can't be found on the boot drive and I don't know what I did wrong.

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What did you put onto the usb drive? How did the file end?

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Did you flashed it to the drive or did you just put it there?

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630v4 GPU: Nvidia Quadro M4000 RAM: 4x16GB ECC 2400MHz DDR4 SSD: 512GB NVMe PCIe HDD: 2x WDRED

RAID: MegaRAID SAS 9341-8i RAID1 MOBO: Dell system-specific CASE: Dell T5810 PSU: 825W Dell system-specific

Cooler: Dell system-specific w/ custom 3D printed fan shrouds Monitor: Philips BDM3275UP 2160p Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB Mouse: MadCatz R.A.T. 7 Mousepad: Steelseries QcK

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7 minutes ago, DaRealPigBaby said:

I just put it there and the file was ubuntu-16.04.1-desktop-amd64

Do this instead of just copying the file to USB... the process makes a bootable USB, instead of a USB with a file on it.

 

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You need to flash it there. Download win32 disk imager, put the file directory to the textbox and hit write. 

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2630v4 GPU: Nvidia Quadro M4000 RAM: 4x16GB ECC 2400MHz DDR4 SSD: 512GB NVMe PCIe HDD: 2x WDRED

RAID: MegaRAID SAS 9341-8i RAID1 MOBO: Dell system-specific CASE: Dell T5810 PSU: 825W Dell system-specific

Cooler: Dell system-specific w/ custom 3D printed fan shrouds Monitor: Philips BDM3275UP 2160p Keyboard: Corsair K95 RGB Mouse: MadCatz R.A.T. 7 Mousepad: Steelseries QcK

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