You will need the Ubuntu Live CD or an ISO image of the latest version. First, you need to prepare the flash drive, by copying the ISO image to the drive and then reboot the computer from the flash drive to run the installation. Let me present the outline of the procedure. I explain the simplest installation method here (based on Windows), that will get your job done in a matter of minutes. So if you have a machine with a CD drive, you can use the installation CD based tool to prepare a bootable drive. The latest installation CD of this operating system has a USB bootable disc creation tool. I assume in this article, that you have a pre-installed Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 version on your computer, and you want to install and boot Ubuntu from a USB drive. The method of installation described below works for Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu as well. This way, it can also be installed on netbooks, that do not have optical drives.
Installing it from a USB drive eliminates the need for burning installation CDs. This operating system is very flexible in terms of media through which it can be installed on a computer. Ubuntu is one of the most recent and popular versions of Linux, whose design motto is ‘ Linux For Humans‘. In this article, its installation procedure, using a flash drive is explained in detail. The beauty of a Linux-based operating system like Ubuntu is that it is extremely flexible in terms of installation.