Booting from the USB Disk
Now, plug the flash drive back in, and restart the computer. This is where you find out whether you're set up to boot from USB drives—if you get a purple Ubuntu boot screen, you're all ready to go! The rest of the process will be the same as the usual installation from a CD, which you can read about in Chapter 2.
If the computer just boots back into Windows (or whatever operating system you're using), you'll need to change some settings to get it to boot from the flash drive. Restart the computer again, and look on the screen for text related to the boot order or BIOS settings for your computer. You'll normally have to press a key (such as delete, F2, or esc) to access these settings, but this very much depends on the ...
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