Questions tagged [iso]
Questions about how to use/mount/burn/create ISO images.
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Custom /casper/vmlinuz /casper/initrd for ARM64 Ubuntu Server install ISO image
I have a set of systems that needs a custom Linux kernel image to support the hardware. With previous releases I was able to copy the working vmlinuz and update the initrd files for that kernel in the ...
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grub-pc not working after install and configured using preseed
I have a custom installer that installs ubuntu 22.04 and want to make it unattended/automatic - preconfiguring all the packages before hand so that the user shouldn't have to do anything other than ...
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how do i create custom ubuntu iso from scratch?
so i have log aggregator repo in my GitHub. includes all the required files for it and a script which sets up log aggregator on localhost. Now i want to create an ubuntu iso which has this readymade ...
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modify windwos iso. Grampa, acetoniso and iso master not working
Before i go off ranting i'm just gonna ask the question. Is it possible to edit a windows udf iso.
I've tried isomaster, Acetoneiso. The furthest I've gotten is engrampa but that only opens the image ...
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22.04 and Installing Packages From Local ISO
I seem to be having a few issues installing packages from a locally mounted ISO (ubuntu-22.04-live-server-amd64.iso).
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /root/iso/ubuntu-24.04-live-server-amd64.iso /mnt/ubuntu/
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Ubuntu 24.04.1 Desktop ISOs (SNAP, APT)
It is my understanding that the Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop ISO installs all the packages as if installed via snap, and uses snap to automatically upgrade programs/files. Nevertheless, Canonical still ...
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Live USB boot problems [duplicate]
I've downloaded a Ubuntu 24.04 ISO and created a bootable USB in Windows 11 with etcher. I have a Dell XPS 13(3515). When booting from the USB drive, I get a grub command prompt. What can I do to ...
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supergrub2 boot iso : error: out of range
In attempt to boot ISO from SuperGrub2 Ubuntu-derivatives will fail to load the vmlinuz or initrd.lz from casper. All files are accessible on grub but fail to load on memory.
I have used the following ...
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How to run balena etcher on ubuntu 20.04
I am trying to install linux mint using a usb stick. I am currently using ubuntu 20.04 and I dowloaded a .zip from https://etcher.balena.io/#download-etcher. After unzipping I see something like this:
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How can I access files on an OSX created encrypted .dmg file?
I have an encrypted .dmg file made on a Mac in OSX, I need to be able to access the files in it from my Ubuntu laptop. I have read a few things about how to do this using things like dmg2iso but so ...
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Explain how the gpg verification and key obtaining documented in "How to verify your Ubuntu download" is safe against a MITM attack
Some Ubuntu mirror servers still use http instead of https. In addition, a manipulated iso image version with a matching sha256 sum could be foisted on a download server. To ensure tamper-proof and ...
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Cubic: Can I stop and restart a Cubic session
If I have started running a cubic session and have not completed the work necessary to complete the new custom ISO but have to shutdown my computer due to something like an impending thunderstorm, is ...
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Any Scripts for Generating ISO Squashfs Layers
I am builing my 22.04 livecd: add more tools (lsscsi, ipmitool, etc...) after finish install system and in livecd.
I check the doc LiveCDCustomization and LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch, I notice ...
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How do I actually download the ubuntu desktop iso? [closed]
Selecting the "Download ubuntu desktop" navigates me to the previous page. No errors or anything.
I simply can't start the ubuntu desktop download.
Is there another location to download the ...
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Startup USB for Ubuntu 24.04 does not finish booting
I've tried this twice with the Ubuntu 24.04 ISO, written with dd and the startup disk creator to a thumb drive.
When I used dd, I used the following command:
sudo dd if=ubuntu.iso of=/dev/sda bs=1M ...
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Verifying Ubuntu ISO file
For some time now I have been wondering if verifying the PGP signature and sha256 hash are actually needed to check if there is any malware in the downloaded ISO.
Evertime I try to google this, i get ...
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Startup USB and ISO disk for Ubuntu 24.04 won't work
I have used Ubuntu since version 18 and I was always able to get the ISO disk to offer a trial or installation as I upgraded to versions 20 and 22. On April 25, 2024, I downloaded the 24.04 ISO file ...
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Easy way to Verify Ubuntu ISO?
Is there an easy way to verify the Ubuntu ISO? The tutorial here from canonical seems very difficult just to verify an iso of ubuntu 24.04
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I need to update the kernel of ubuntu 22.04 ISO file
We are working on customizing the ISO of ubuntu 22.04.3 using autoinstall, here we are developing our product with specific kernel version (automirror clone version). Always the automirror clone is ...
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Burning an iso of a movie makes corrupted DVDs
I tried to create a DVD of an ISO (movie). The ISO itself was created with dd (dd if=... of=...). I get no issues when playing the ISO with VLC. First I burned the ISO with Brasero. The DVD would play ...
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How to download and place a package (and dependencies) in a local directory as it is in the repo?
I am trying to write a script that prepare an offline installable custom ISO. The customized ISO should have include some other packages which do not come with the official Ubuntu server ISO. (like ...
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What exactly constitutes the Ubuntu iso file that you download when you "download Ubuntu"?
Is it just Debian but with more packages specified in the manifest file, or is there anything else included?
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How exactly do Ubuntu developers generate the iso file that gets released?
Usually you'd have the source code somewhere like in a GitHub repository, then you would run some CI/CD pipelines to create a release. Where is that source code? I did some research and many people ...
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Trouble installing Ubuntu on MacBook Pro 2009
Installed using an ISO on a usb stick. Followed basic YouTube tutorial. The installation process is going just fine until I restart my computer after the installation is complete and I remove the usb. ...
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error invoking "grub-mkrescue" - invocation fails
I am following along a tutorial on writing an OS and fail to create a bootable iso file. The tutorial uses grub-legacy but I use grub 2 since legacy is outdated.
The important part of the makefile ...
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Making an ISO from a dvd once it's inserted
I'm trying to make it so that when I insert a dvd into the cdrom It exports it into an iso using dd. Here's the script for exporting to an iso
#!/bin/bash
timestamp=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")
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Laptop keyboard not working when trying to install Ubuntu 23.10
Today I have acquired a new laptop, Maibenben X565, with preinstalled Kubuntu based on Ubuntu 22.10. I downloaded an ISO image of the regular Ubuntu 23.10 from the official site, created an ISO image ...
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Error while installing Balena Etcher
I was trying to create a bootable USB with BalenaEtcher but encountered an error when installing the program.
I downloaded the main .deb file from the github release page but when I run sudo apt ...
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xubuntu 23.10 ISO files with two md5sum errors
I extracted the files from xubuntu-23.10-desktop-amd64.iso.
The file md5sum.txt contains a list of the files with the md5sum values.
Result of
md5sum -c md5sum.txt:
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./.disk/info: OK
./.disk/casper-...
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Burn ISO to USB stick
I am using Ubuntu 23.10 and do not have a CD/DVD reader/writer on my laptop. I have downloaded a bootable ISO from Linux Welt and want to burn this onto a USB stick but I cannot find a GUI that can do ...
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Issue with custom theme resetting when switching between dark and light modes in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
I encountered a problem with applying a custom theme in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS while creating a custom ISO image. Initially, in 10_ubuntu-settings.gschema.override (which is located in usr/share/glib-2.0/...
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Change first setup ubuntu logo image [duplicate]
I embarked on the idea of creating my own Ubuntu image with the addition of some AI features. As it turned out, one of the most challenging task was to change the Ubuntu logo at the first OS boot. ...
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Verifying 22.0-4 ISO Download Problem
How Do I Verify Ubuntu 22.04 ISO Download
I'm having issues installing Ubuntu 22.04 iso on an old PC. So I'm checking all the steps.
step 1 was to verify the iso file and I followed the steps ...
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Discrepancy in EFI\BOOT Folder Presence Between ARM and AMD64 ISOs, and UEFI Support Verification for ARM ISOs
Why does the ARM ISO not contain the EFI\BOOT folder, while the AMD64 ISO does? And how can one verify if an ARM ISO supports UEFI without checking the EFI\BOOT folder?
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Custom 22.04 Server iso results in "unable to find a medium containing a live file system"
I was trying to make a custom 22.04 iso that would auto install with cloud init. However after getting past grub the initramfs would not be able to find the filesystem. I thought to remove my ...
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Some way to create an installable ISO from an installed (and customized) Ubuntu system (22.04 Jammy Jellyfish)?
Any help as soon as possible would be greatly appreciated.
I customized Ubuntu very deeply, everything from the OS release file to the wallpaper, shell themes, custom Plymouth theme, logo in the about ...
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700Mb "netinst" ISO available for Ubuntu 22.04?
I've got several older Macs (2008-09 vintage) and they will only boot to CDROM (700Mb) media (No DVD 4.7Ghz or USB boot...). I'd like to install Ubuntu on these old machines but am at an impasse ...
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Is it possible to install two ISO on single USB using only DD?
I have a 16 GB Pendrive and I would like to put Windows 11 ISO and Ubuntu 22.04 ISO and make it bootable. I would like to pick the ISO to launch every time the USB is inserted.
I saw that there are ...
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Make an Iso-File
I have changed the Ubuntu installation file 22.04.3 and want to create a new iso file.
The iso file should also start when secure boot is activated.
This should be possible with mkisofs. Unfortunately,...
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How to customize an ISO Ubuntu 22.04 arm64 server for pre-install a .deb package
The situation is: I want to install a package (.deb) in the Ubuntu ISO before installing the OS, to avoid installing the package every time I use the ISO. How can I do that using the Linux command ...
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How to install ubuntu(*.iso) remotely in a machine currently running an ubuntu already?
I just want to virtualize an old system environment to test whether my software can work or not.
I have an ISO link: https://nigos.nist.gov/evaluations/ubuntu-20.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso
And I can ...
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Need to have custom packages downloaded inside ubuntu minimal iso, how can i do that? [duplicate]
how to (easily?) build a minimal Ubuntu ISO (simple distro I guess), pre-installed with custom packages and my application, because sometimes, I have no internet connection during installation of the ...
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Xubuntu 23.10 ISO Verification
I'm new to the community and have a question re verification of my Xubuntu 23.10 iso image that i downloaded via torrent link from their site.
I did the iso verification on my macbook as per these ...
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How can I convert a folder with a lot of .bin files to their respective .iso on Ubuntu 22.04?
I have a folder with +100 .bin (and only .bin) files which I want to convert to their respective .iso (a.bin -> a.iso, b.bin -> b.iso), and so on. I only found on the net examples on how to ...
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Problems downloading Ubunu 20.04 from Ubuntu.com
5 (five!) times I have tried to download Ubuntu 22.04 for desktop and I could never make
It always stop before finishing. Does anybody know anything about these problems_
Thank you, Monica
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Ubuntu 23.10.1 ISO Installer, and runaway python3 process
I prepared an external 2TB USB SSD drive with the (re-released) 23.10.1 ISO image. Then I edited /etc/grub.d/40-custom to be able to boot to the ISO image directly from GRUB.
menuentry "Ubuntu 23....
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Disk Image Mounter from Nautilus (Files) Context Menu Fails to Mount ISO
Ubuntu 20.04 attempting to mount ISO file using Disk Image Mounter from Nautilus (Files) Context Menu fails to mount ISO with the following message -
However going mount somefile.iso /mnt results in ...
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Install Ubuntu 22.04 on Dell Wyse 5070 thin client
Can I use a USB adapter cable for M.2 SSD on my Windows 10 PC to flash Ubuntu ISO to the new M.2 SSD then just plug into 5070 motherboard? I recall doing this a few years ago but don't find this ...
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Create Custom Ubuntu ISO Installation Medium
Modifications of the Ubuntu ISO would be great in offline installations for my purpose. There is Cubic, but for what I've been doing it has only attempted to create Live CD type setups. What I am ...
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Why am I getting a `warning: could not open directory` from any command after unsquashing a squashfs filesystem?
I've been playing around with creating custom ISO images, and I've been successful. However, during the process I've come across a situation that I don't understand.
My system is Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS ...
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