You should see a screen that looks similar to the one on the right.Ĭlick the SELECT button to choose the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server ISO file you downloaded from the Ubuntu web page. Once it’s finished downloading open up Rufus. You’ll need to make sure there’s nothing on this flash drive that you want because Rufus will erase it when it creates the bootable USB. Plug in a spare USB flash drive with at least 4Gigabytes of space. So, now you need to visit in your web browser and follow the instructions there to download Rufus.
Usually it’s done by copying special files and folders to a USB flash drive and marking that flash drive as bootable.
#INSTALL UBUNTU FROM USB 18.04 LTS SOFTWARE#
Rufus is a clever piece of software which turns ISO images such as the one you’ve just downloaded, into something that can be used to boot your computer. I’ve highlighted in yellow the link you need to click – where it says Option 2. If you look at the picture below, this is a screenshot of the page you should see when you first visit the URL given above. You can get Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server at – but bear in mind that at the time of writing the website is, in my opinion, horribly confusing and appears to be desperately trying to push you into buying Ubuntu as a service. Ubuntu Server is free software so make sure that you’re not paying someone for it. With Ubuntu the best source is from Ubuntu themselves as they’ll make sure you’re getting a legitimate copy. The first step to installing any new operating system is of course, to download said operating system.
#INSTALL UBUNTU FROM USB 18.04 LTS HOW TO#
How To Install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server on Surface Pro Download Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Server I’ve already gone through how to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop version in a previous article – if you really want the desktop version then have a look at that one. Many of the repurposing options require the ‘Server’ version of Linux rather than a graphical desktop since the graphical desktop will use up valuable memory space – particularly if your SP4 is the 4Gigabyte RAM version. I’ve been writing various articles here at Most Useful regarding installing various Linux flavours of Linux on Surface Pro 4 or 3 and various ways of repurposing said Surface Pros which require Linux.
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