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   On Tue, 9/16/2025 11:35 PM, bilsch01 wrote:   
   > On 9/15/2025 2:06 PM, Jason H wrote:   
   >> On 15/09/2025 21:33, bilsch01 wrote:   
   >>> I want to create a bootable Ubuntu installer thumb drive using Win11.   
   >>> The installer needs to offer an option to install the bootable Ubuntu   
   partition alongside of an existing bootable Win11 partition. I want   
   >>> to create this bootable installer using Windows 11.   
   >>> Any explanatory info you provide about creating the thumb drive will be   
   appreciated.   
   >>> TIA.   Bill S.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> You need Rufus. It's a Windows app that takes an ISO and uses it to create a   
   >> bootable USB stick.   
   >   
   > I downloaded a Ubuntu 24.04.3 ISO file to my Win11 PC. Next I downloaded and   
   installed Rufus on my PC, which has the copy of the Ubuntu ISO file. My   
   intention is to run Rufus to create a bootable installer USB thumb drive for   
   installing Ubuntu along    
   side Win11 ON OTHER PCs. While installing Rufus on my PC it seemed to gather   
   info about my PC as though RUFUS thinks I'm getting ready to tell it to   
   install Ubuntu on this PC. That would be a mistaken use for any information it   
   just gathered. I just want    
   to make a bootable thumb drive for installing Ubuntu on other Win11 PCs.   
   Please tell me if I am going down the correct road for that?   
   > Thanks for your help.   
   > Bill S.   
   >   
   >   
   > my PC will be the target for installing Ubuntu. That makes me wonder if   
   Rufus thinks I'm getting ready to tell it to install Ubuntu on this PC-   
   because that's NOT what I'm going to do. I just want to make a bootable thumb   
   drive for installing Ubuntu on    
   other Win11 PCs. Please tell me: Am I going down the correct road for that?   
   > Thanks for your help.   
   > Bill S.   
   >   
   >   
      
   The Portable version does not install, but it does keep a settings file   
   next to the EXE after you've run it. I guess the one I've got on disk,   
   is the current one.   
      
   https://rufus.ie/en/   
      
      rufus-4.9p.exe     Portable     Windows x64     2 MB     2025.06.15   
      
      Name: rufus-4.9p-june15-2025.exe   
      Size: 2,102,632 bytes (2053 KiB)   
      SHA256: 497F796E6D076D4855D697965C04626E6D3624658FCE3ECA82AB14F7414EEDE2   
      
   It will present a UAC prompt for administrator elevation. This is   
   the portable version, that just runs by double clicking the EXE. The   
   elevation is needed for preparing the file system on the stick.   
      
   In the Ubuntu case, there should be only the one screen.   
      
   In the Windows 11 case, after you click Start, a secondary menu   
   appears with convenience features for Windows 11. If you tick enough   
   of the boxes in that secondary thing, it allows installing Windows 11   
   on unqualified computers (like my 4th gen 4930K machine running licensed W11   
   now).   
   The single tick box I've selected in the picture, is the "light touch"   
   modification   
   to the install materials, intended to cause the least trauma to the install.   
      
       [Picture]   Use the Download Original button near the top, for a   
   full-resolution picture   
      
        https://i.postimg.cc/XYH5y55K/Using-Rufus-USB-Stick-Tool.gif   
      
   I hope that whatever you've downloaded, the dialogs you see in that picture,   
   are the only information gathering steps, and it was not some adware on   
   the rufus.ie site you got instead.   
      
   You need to:   
      
   1) Identify which USB stick to write   
      
   2) Identify the ISO file to use as the source materials.   
      
   3) If prompted for a SYSLINUX download, agree to that, as more than   
      one version of SYSLINUX wrapper is used for stick preparation, and   
      not all SYSLINUX options are stored in the EXE at the moment.   
      
   4) One of the modes, is likely to be more of a "dd" style stick-write.   
      
      The other mode, unpacks the ISO and stores the components on the   
      USB stick file system. USB stick writing is notoriously free of   
      status indications, and if your stick is damaged or not working well,   
      it could take 20 minutes to write a large collection, so be patient.   
      USB sticks vary in the range of 3MB/sec writes, to 100MB/sec writes,   
      and this always feels "a bit slow".   
      
     Paul   
      
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