2. Insert a USB drive into your machine and open Rufus. 3. Select your USB drive using Device, and then click SELECT and select the Linux OS that you wish to install. In our case it was Ubuntu. 4.

On the computer where you want to install Linux Mint, insert the USB drive you just made, turn on the computer, and set the machine to boot from the USB device.

To guard against this potential unpleasantness, it’s time you looked into putting a bootable Linux desktop image on a portable USB key chain drive.

If you want to always boot from a USB drive, you can do that too. Go into the BIOS and configure the UEFI boot option menu to list the USB drive with the boot install as the first option.

Tunic is a free software that can be used to install Linux over or alongside Windows without booting from external USB drive.