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First selected Dell Laptop. Then the following search parameters

• 5378

• Laptops
• Pre-installed by manufacture
• 16.04 LTS
• Dell

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 Canonical works closely with OEMs to certify Ubuntu on a range of their hardware.
 The following are all certified. More and more devices are being added with each release, so don't forget to check this page regularly.
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 Dell Inspiron 13-5378 Laptop

Create Boot Ubuntu Installation of USB On Windows

References

• started here UEFI bootable USB Drive

Download Ubuntu

• Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
• File name: ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso

Get Rufus for Windows

• UEFI - In section 4 "Installing Ubuntu for Single Boot with a Radom Boot Mode" follow the link in step 1 to "LiveUSB"
• LiveCD Go to section 2 "How-To LIVECD ubuntu" to step 1 under "To create a LiveUSB". Follow the "Installation/FromUSBStick" link.
• Installation From USB Stick In section 7 "Creating a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive from Windows". I clicked on the link in the "Ubuntu's official recommendation" and got to the following Tutorial.
• Tutorial to Create a bootable USB stick on Windows.
• Rufus rufus-2.18p.exe was downloaded on my Dell laptop. Put it in ...\epp\bin

Running Rufus

• Followed instructions at Create a USB stick on Windows tutorial
• Started Rufus
• Inserted USB stick - it ended up as unreadable in E: device 7.8 GB
• Picked MBR partion sched for UFI
• Clicked on the CD icon next to "Create a bootable dis using", ISO Image pulldown. and found the ubuntu-16.04.3-desktop-amd64 iso
• Clicked "Start"
• A down load of xxx was requested and oked - see screen dump
• ISO image detected box and I left as default "Write in ISO image mode (Recommended"
• It found something wrong on the USB drive and fixed it before I could read it.