I’ve tried a bunch of times to install Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS onto a USB “thumb drive” as an alternative transportable OS (for mainly my Windows computer). Running the Startup disk Creator from either an Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator on a different USB drive or from a VM running Ubuntu 18.0(?) LTS. Using the source as the 24.04.4 LTS .iso install file, the behavior of the new boot drive install appears identical: — no boot record found on the (USB drive). Is there any way to correct this or maybe try to install using the prior LTS version for the source?? I’ve also tried using the boot drive as created by the app, but that doesn’t seem to be storing the settings I set while first using it, or so it seems any time after. It seems to boot and start into Ubuntu without my stored(?) settings, as if starting the first time. So, otherwise, is there a published procedure I might try to follow? Or an edit I can do to settings or grub or ???
I do not want to install over the Windows OS nor beside the Windows install. I want to be able to plug in the USB drive when I want to run Ubuntu, whether it is in this computer or another so I don’t think there should be any device / computer specific settings or drivers unless they are live installed over or alongside defaults.
FWIW: my boot startup USB dev is sdc and my target device is sdd. I suppose I could remove the second HDD if that would help. — if the problem is a drive numbering limitation?? I could even remove the primary Windows OS HDD, although I would prefer not to.
Thanks in advance.
