Do you have a decade old machine that doesn’t support booting from USB? Want to try out the latest lightweight Ubuntu derivative (like Lubuntu or LXLE) on it quickly? Here’s a way to do that using live USB.

Prerequisites

We are assuming that you do not have Ubuntu installed on the device. We need

A bootable CD with a relatively newer version (having GRUB2) of Ubuntu ISO burnt on it.

A live USB pen drive created using Startup Disk Creator on Ubuntu.

Steps