Does anyone have experience creating a bootable Ubuntu USB from the Trisquel OS?
I have no access to a Windows or OS X machine.
Does anyone have experience creating a bootable Ubuntu USB from the Trisquel OS?
I have no access to a Windows or OS X machine.
Trisquel is sufficiently similar to Ubuntu that you can use essentially the same technique recommended for making an Ubuntu USB on a pre-existing Ubuntu system.
Or you can use the Trisquel GNU/Linux instructions for writing a Trisquel ISO to a USB flash drive, but write the Ubuntu ISO image instead of a Trisquel ISO image:
The Ubuntu instructions say to search for Startup Disk Creator in the Unity dash. The Trisquel instructions say to run it from System Settings (in the GNOME Control Center).
If you don't use a GNOME-based desktop (includes Unity), you can run it directly by pressing Alt+F2, typing usb-creator-gtk
, and pressing Enter.
If you're using KDE as your desktop environment, run usb-creator-kde
instead.
usb-creator-gtk
and usb-creator-kde
are available for all versions of Trisquel GNU/Linux. If you don't have them, you can install them with the package manager--for example, in Add/Remove Applications. But they are installed by default; it's quite unlikely you don't have them.
Then click Other, find the ISO image, and back on the main screen, select which device you want to write it to. (Be careful not to select the wrong one, as this overwrites whatever data are already there.) Click Make Startup Disk.
The CLI instructions there work too. As it says, run:
sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=8M;sync
/path/to/image.iso
should be replaced by the actual path. (One way to get this is to drag the ISO image into the terminal window from a file browser window or the desktop.)X
should be replaced by the letter (a
, b
, c
, ...) representing the physical disk to which you are writing the image.sudo dd ...
in Trisquel GNU/Linux, there is no protection against a typo that could potentially cause substantial data loss. While an equivalent mistake using the GUI utility (explained above) is possible, the interface makes it somewhat less likely. If you're not already comfortable using the command-line, I recommend the GUI way instead.I recommend MultiSystem utility for best results with the least problems, which you can download and install from here: http://liveusb.info/dotclear/index.php?pages/install