USB boot

[RedSingularity]

Any recommendations on some applications i can use to create bootable USB's from a disk or ISO file? The one Ubuntu comes with wont work on many of my ISO's and CD's.

[john183]

My apologies, i thought you were asking if there was a way to do it. My preffered way of creating bootable USB drives is the built in program in 8.10. I have tried a few others, but none really seemed to work as well for me.


Yes, you can make bootable USB drives easily form an ISO. If you are using 8.10 there is a program in the system/administration menu that will assist you. For more information search for bootable USB in the forums.

[snowpine]

Unetbootin is the most popular. If that doesn't fit your needs, check out the detailed tutorials at pendrivelinux.com.

[FaizanKazi]

EDIT : john, I think he's saying that the one in the system >> administration menu doesn't work well for other distributions.

also, shadow, which distributions does that application not work with? ive used it with a bunch and they all seem to work fine. maybe you dont have enough space on your usb drive?

meanwhile, try unetbootin:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
check out the list of supported distributions on their homepage

Yes, you can make bootable USB drives easily form an ISO. If you are using 8.10 there is a program in the system/administration menu that will assist you. For more information search for bootable USB in the forums.

[JK3mp]

The tool in 8.10 not suffice?

[dabl]

The one Ubuntu comes with wont work on many of my ISO's and CD's.

That seems odd -- what do you mean "won't work" -- is there an error output that you can post, so we can learn the nature of the problem? The way you phrase it, it sounds like it works on some ISO files, but not others -- what is the difference between the ones that work and the ones that don't?

However, here's a pretty good tutorial on the subject, covering multiple methods:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3089474.0

[RedSingularity]

Ahhh i got the one in ubuntu to work finally. I guess i was using a bad iso file......

Thanks for the recommendations guys