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I have installed ubuntu on my flash drive usb. I am using a mac. Once I plug it in, it asks me to complete an installation. Do I have to do the installation to fully use ubuntu from usb?

I can click on quit and it lets me use ubuntu normally, so I am wondering what I have to do.

Also, I cant seem to make a wifi connection happen. Any help on that?

Thanks a lot,

user300458
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Prus
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  • Welcome to AU! We would like to keep separate things separate to increase readability. Please open a new question for your WiFi problem and delete it from this question. – David Foerster Sep 28 '14 at 18:01

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Ubuntu USB is designed as "portable" Ubuntu, but, if you want to use Ubuntu upon your Mac, then you'll need to specific the USB to function as installer, not as a "portable" version.

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  • What do you mean by portable? As in I plug it in and use its basic features? Because I think I understand why I can't use wifi, its because the usb cannot connect to a wifi connection.

    What do you mean by USB to function as installer? I am trying to get through the process of installing it, but I have no success.

    To be honest, all I want from it for now is to do basic functions. I will have time to understand it after, but for now, I really need it for my c++ class and I just realised it cannot compile (g++) but I can't install anything.

    Thanks

     – Prus Sep 28 '14 at 14:31
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The official Ubuntu website provides instructions to create a bootable USB drive and boot from it. Did you prepare the USB drive and reboot your machine as described (or equivalently)?

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  • I followed the instructions, but now I want to install it but I get the following message : "The creation of swap space in partition failed #6 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sdb) failed". I have partitioned my HDD into the main one for mac and for ubuntu I gave 40gb. Is there a step im missing? – Prus Sep 30 '14 at 14:17
  • If you don't want to know, how to set up a live system on a USB drive, which was your original question, we should not discuss that here. Look at the community help for Ubuntu on Mac and partitioning schemes and, if necessary, create a new question. – David Foerster Sep 30 '14 at 15:35