Questions tagged [usb-creator]
A tool to take Ubuntu CDs and ISO files and write them in a usable form to USB disks.
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How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu?
I'd like to create a Windows bootable USB stick, but I don't have a Windows machine at the moment to do so. How can I achieve that using Ubuntu?
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How to create a bootable USB stick?
I am looking at this:
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu
I need to create a boot disk to test Ubuntu to make sure it will run on a PC (Compaq Mini CQ10-120LA) I was ...
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How to create a bootable USB with multiple ISO images in it
What I want is to create a bootable pen drive that shows GRUB menu and I can select any of the several bootable systems from there to install/run. I have several ISO images that I want to install in ...
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Failed to get canonical path of /cow
I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 for quite some time, and passing hurdles one by one. Now I am in a situation as follows.
I have got a PC and 10 GB HDD which will be totally dedicated to Ubuntu so ...
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Method to create a live USB disk (with persistence) which actually works?
I've tried so many combinations - all I want is a fast Ubuntu Live USB disk with persistence that works. What I've tried so far:
Using unetbootin on my Mac, choosing some "Space used to preserve ...
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Create a bootable USB on a Mac to install Ubuntu on a PC
I have a working MacBook Pro and a crashed Windows 7 PC. I was running Ubuntu on my PC, but after a recurrent issue now I can't boot either OS. I would like to install only Ubuntu on my PC and will ...
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How to create a OS X Mountain Lion Bootable USB drive on Ubuntu?
I already know how to do it on Mac OS X (plenty of instructions online).
But is it possible to do it on Ubuntu? If yes, how?
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Where is the persistent option for Startup Disk Creator in 16.04?
The Startup Disk Creator no longer shows the option to create a persistent drive. How do I get back this setting in the application?
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can't install with usb pen drive, SYSLINUX problem
i'm on ubuntustudio and i want to format my hd and try kubuntu
(install in my acer notebook, no partion, no double operating system problem, only istall it)
i've downloaded iso file ( kubuntu-10.10-...
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How to fix syslinux error creating a bootable USB stick in Windows?
I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 desktop and I am trying to create a bootable USB drive using the universal USB installer.
However, I keep getting the message:
An error(1) occurred while executing ...
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Problems with making a bootable USB Drive on a Mac
I am following these instructions to create a Bootable USB Drive for me Mac and this is the output I get on step 8.
new-host:~ Jason$ sudo dd if=/Users/Jason/Desktop/ubuntu-12.04-desktop-amd64.dmg of=...
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How to put .iso file to USB? [duplicate]
I want to try out Linux Mint. I am on Ubuntu 11.10 now. How can I mount .iso file on USB? And also, will my other files disappear in USB when I mount it? Thank you.
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Why does usb-creator-gtk require root access?
When you want to create a bootable usb memory stick, then you must identify as a sudoer. Why is that? I have no difficulty understanding why unprivileged users shouldn't be allowed to fiddle with the ...
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Cannot boot without USB stick after successful install [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu yesterday via a bootable USB drive, created with unetbootin. Everything went very well, but now the computer does not boot unless the USB drive is plugged in. If it's not, then when ...
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Live USB creator software [duplicate]
Is there a program that can make live USBs for any distro, iso, you get the point. I can only find ones that make live USBs for other linux distributions and none for anything else.
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Why isn't Startup Disk Creator working in 12.04?
I'm trying to create a bootable USB stick (7.5G) for Ubuntu 12.04 (x86_64) from another Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 PC.
I downloaded the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425).
When ...
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Is there a command-line alternative to usb-creator-gtk?
I'm trying to create a bootable USB stick of ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso using usb-creator-gtk on my ThinkPad X220. Usb-creator-gtk appears to work OK, but the resulting stick fails to boot either ...
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How to enable persistent option in disk creator?
I try to test natty alpha with usb. (my system is 10.04) But when I run disk creator I can not choose the option for persistent creation. Here on screenshots I saw that this is possible. Choosing the ...
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Why does integrity check fail for the 12.04.1 Alternate ISO?
I have followed various recommendations from the Ubuntu Documentation to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive using the 12.04.1 Alternate install ISO-file for 64-bit PC. But the integrity test of ...
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creating a bootable iso for windows [duplicate]
Hey guys I've been trying for the last 3 hours to work out how to get WinUSB to get this onto my USB but it keeps giving me failed when I try I thought it was permissions so I tried
chmod 777
but ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 installation with USB flash drive problem
I have problems while trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 using USB flash drive. I tried to create bootable usb flash drive with UnetBootin and startup disk creator but when I boot from flash drive I get ...
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cannot mount /dev/loop1 on /cow
I am trying to install ubuntu 12.10 64bit using a liveUsb and I got this message :
cannot mount /dev/loop1 on /cow which shows up after clicking on "try Ubuntu before installing" or install Ubuntu".
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Undo zcat to Internal HDD and recover the Data
I wanted to made a USB Ubuntu installer via zcat, because the T61s of my Dad don't have a CD Drive.
So i used "sudo zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdb"
But i forgot to change the sdb to sdc and overwrite my ...
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install ubuntu on to usb [duplicate]
I want to install Ubuntu onto my sandisk usb stick NOT onto my hard drive win 10.
There isn't enough room (with all my other stuff) and I don't want to overwrite (as bad as win 10 is). Plus I want the ...
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unable to create usb stick for windows 7 from ubuntu 14.04
I followed the same process which mentioned in below link to create USB stick for windows:
How can I create a Windows bootable USB stick using Ubuntu?
But WinUSB throws following error while syncing:...
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How can I install persistent Ubuntu 13.04? [duplicate]
i can't install persistent ubuntu 13.04 on my 4gb using Universal usb installer.
it acts as live usb not persistent usb it gives me setup every boot.
i used to install persistent ubuntu using ...