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I am currently using UBUNTU in Raspberry Pi4. I have another PC that has a crashed hard disk. So what I am planning is to get rid of that HDD and use a pen-drive instead. What I am planning is to make a pendrive that is not live and it will be booted every time I open the PC. Is there any software or process that can help me install the OS in the pendrive? I have balena etcher and rpi-imager installed in my UBUNTU. Are they helpful in this situation.

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    You'd probably want two thumb drivers or an optical disk and a thumb drive. Basically, you'd boot to the optical disk and just pick the thumb drive as your installation disk. All writable disks, including a thumb drive, should appear as destination choices during the installation. I will also mention that replacement drives are inexpensive and Linux (itself) doesn't take up much space. You can get a 128 GB SDD for under well under $50. Disk space is exceptionally cheap these days.
    – KGIII
    Jul 25 '20 at 19:35
  • Have you performed a google search before asking. The google search for "pendrive linux" puts this top of my search results: pendrivelinux.com . The technical term you may have missed is live usb. If you google for "how to create Ubuntu live USB" you should come up with some pretty good results.
    – Philip Couling
    Jul 25 '20 at 19:43
  • Possibly a more relevant link: ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#1-overview
    – Philip Couling
    Jul 25 '20 at 20:52
  • There is a detailed description how to install Ubuntu into a USB drive (like it were installed into an internal drive) at this link.
    – sudodus
    Jul 25 '20 at 23:24

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