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To install the Universal USB Installer (UUI) I need to have an iso file. Where can I get it (from)?

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  • @Rinzwind Canonical officially recommends using the Universal USB Installer to produce installation media (in these instructions, one click away from the link you just posted). So I'd suggest questions about the Universal USB Installer are not off-topic. But let's close this as a duplicate of How do I install Ubuntu? By the way, by default Windows doesn't show file extensions, so people get confused about the install ISO. – Eliah Kagan Jul 04 '13 at 03:51

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The answer depends on what you want to do with UUI. I assume you are are planning to use it to create a bootable USB stick for Ubuntu installation. In this case, there's a guide at http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows with step-by-step instructions.

On the same page (and on any other subpage of ubuntu.com) you'll find a big download button in the orange menu-bar at the top. Download the DVD image of the Ubuntu version you'd like.

A .iso file is a premastered CD or DVD disk image (more precisely, it's a file containing an ISO 9600 filesystem). These can either be burnt to an optical medium using any CD/DVD writing software, or read directly to access the contained files (you can think of it as being similar to unzipping a .zip file, although it's technically different). UUI extracts the files within the .iso to a USB drive and then installs a bootloader on the USB drive, in order to allow you to boot from it.

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