How to prepare bootable usb stick for Ubuntu 16.10

In this post I will explain to create a bootable USB disk to install Ubuntu 16.10.

Prerequisites

• USB Flash disk with at least 2 GB free space.
• Ubuntu 16.10 ISO image

Steps

- Install gparted tool to enable formatting of the USB disk.

sudo apt-get install gparted

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- Install mksub tool to wipe out the first mega byte of file system and create a new a partition of
  same file system.

- Run Startup Disk Creator/USB Creator

	sudo add-apt-repository universe # only for standard Ubuntu
	sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mkusb/ppa # and press Enter
	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install mkusb
	sudo apt-get install mkusb-nox #non-gui command line version

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1. Insert the usb disk and run the Startup Disk Creator.
2. Choose the image file and make sure to format the USB stick using usb creator's graphical user interface.

 

Once you click the right-most button, eventually it will create a bootable USB disk for Ubuntu 16.10.

Now as the final step after using usb stick for boot-able disk task, in order to restore usb disk to standard storage drive we can use the mksub-nox utility.

sudo mkusb-nox restore

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