How, exactly, to make bootable GParted thumbdrive?
 

This was in response to question about running GParted from a USB stick.
How exactly would you create this GParted Bootable USB Stick?

I'm still running 64-bit Win7 because I haven't been able to create a LINUX (Kubuntu) bootable USB stick to try out a few Linux distros.


I'd really like to try Debian with the KDE-plasma desktop (I'm hoping I have the resources - only 4GB RAM at the moment. Will add RAM if needed.).


Thanks, --Anne

Download the gparted .iso. https://gparted.org/download.php Use whatever Windows offers - rufus, etc, to burn the .iso to a USB drive. I'm not sure why you want it, but it's available. Gparted is only really useful for partitioning drives, and really only when problems arise. The Linux installer will do the partitioning very well.

As I said in another thread, Ventoy is a good way to try out distros. Follow the instructions here for preparing it in Windows. Once the bootable Ventoy drive is done, you can just do a normal copy or Save as... to the drive for whatever .iso files you want, including Gparted Live, Xubuntu, or anything else. Once you boot into the Xubuntu installer, it should be easy to install to your HDD.

Most Linux installation media will include Gparted so you just need to download the ISO for the distro of your choice.

What was your problem with Kubuntu? The steps are
> Download the ISO and the checksum.
> Get a Windows tool to verify the checksum and make sure that your download was sound.
checksum
> Get a Windows tool to put the ISO file on the USB stick and make it bootable
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Start at the beginning.

What Kubuntu .iso did you download?

How did you bun that .iso to usb drive?

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/re...20.10/release/

This is the standard download.
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/re...ktop-amd64.iso

Is that the one you downloaded?

Did you checksum it?

Won't windows 7 burn an .iso to drive? I think that it will.

I forget why you want it but start at the source. https://gparted.org/liveusb.php

IBID!

Seriously this not need be difficult. My favorite distro contains gparted, and I already have a live boot thumb stick which I use to install it. (Several actually of increasing versions, why throw it away/overwrite it? And they're cheap.)

If your wanting gparted to shrink your windows7 partition, you might be better off using windows disk management to shrink the windows partition.
If I remember correctly it is
right-click-computer>manage>diskmanagement>alltasks>shrinkvolume

SOLVED
 

I did manage to get Ubuntu 20.04 onto a bootable USB flashdrive, and it works. I used Rufus (in win7) to put a hybrid iso onto the flashdrive, so I can install from it also (haven't done that part yet).

Thank you all for your suggestions.
Anne