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I want to create a bootable usb stick for installing ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. Currently I have access to an RHEL 6 machine.

Ubuntu has guides for installing from usb stick, and two methods mentioned are: 1. Unetbootin and 2. mksub. I tried to install unetbootin on RHEL 6, which failed with the error Error: Package: unetbootin-0-15.585bzr.el6.x86_64 (epel) Requires: syslinux-extlinux. Also, yum search mksub returned nothing (as well as my Google search didn't return anything useful).

I was wondering if anyone has experience in creating Ubuntu installer stick from RHEL 6. Thanks.

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    Youn should ask this on a forum related to Fedora. Fedora is a compeletly different system so it will have a specific answer we are not supposed to know ;) unix.stackexchange.com is the place to ask this. In Ubuntu the easiest method is: dash->usb startup.
    – Rinzwind
    Nov 15, 2014 at 20:30
  • You can make a live flash drive with dd. Asking about making an ubuntu live cd on a fedora forums is going to go about as good as asking how to make a fedora live usb here.
    – Panther
    Nov 15, 2014 at 22:15

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Here's my suggestion:

  1. isoinfo -d -i foobar.iso (get the Volume Size and Block Size)

  2. dd if=foobar.iso bs=2048 count=344064 of=/dev/sda (or whatever the usb path is)

The bs and count is probably optional, but it's better to be safe. If you do a search, you'll find similar posts and solutions. Here's another example solution.

How to burn a Windows .iso to a USB device?

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