I'm having trouble downloading Ubuntu onto a 16GB USB drive that's completely empty. Whenever I try to download it, I get an error saying 'File too big to copy' even though the download size is only about 6GB. I've also tried downloading the file directly to the USB drive, but I get a message saying the drive is full, which doesn't make sense since there's over 10GB of space available. Can anyone help me figure out what's going wrong?
3 Answers
Your issue is likely due to the USB drive being formatted in FAT32, which limits individual file sizes to 4GB. You're also not creating the installation media correctly. Instead of copying the ISO file to the drive, you need to use a program like Rufus or Balena Etcher to flash the ISO, making the USB bootable.
It sounds like your USB is formatted with a FAT32 filesystem. This has a hard limit of 4GB for file transfers. Use a tool like Rufus or Balena Etcher to properly write the ISO directly to the drive instead of just copying and pasting it.
Just to clarify, you're trying to download Ubuntu, right? It's common for some misspell it as 'Ubantu.'
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