Comments on: How to Create Bootable USB Drive on Ubuntu / Linux Mint

By: andrea

andrea — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:39:35 +0000

In reply to Barry.

lol so true… its like going to the cop telling them you lost your documents, and they ask for your documents to identify yourself …
he should have show it , how to do it from windows or whatever.

By: Abhay Gautam

Abhay Gautam — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:17:05 +0000

Hi Pradeep,

Informative Post! Thank you so much for sharing this valuable post on How to Create Bootable USB Disk / DVD on Ubuntu / Linux Mint. And i am pretty impressed with the in-depth article you have provided in the post. And it really worked for me. Keep sharing such posts…

Cheers,
Abhay

By: Joe Hutchinson

Joe Hutchinson — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 07:08:10 +0000

These are Linux boot options for use IN a Linux installation. What about making a Linux boot and install disc in Windows? MOST of us wanting to try Linux distros will be coming from a Windows PC and we seriously need such a Linux boot and install tutorial as you have here. We will likely NOT be getting a disc from another Linux user because we don’t know any. So, let’s make it easy -as many say Linux is- to get involved. Since the most recent info says 0.6% of all PC’s have Linux installed, I’m very sure that’s what the Linux community wants as well. [BTW: with apologies, Barry, you are regrettably short sighted]

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 20:09:03 +0000

If I already had Linux loaded I wouldn’t need a bootable disk.

By: clerygo

clerygo — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:30:18 +0000

I did all dd (Command line Utility) process and works fine but USB Memory doesnt boot (Im trying PureOS 8.0 Live iso). I made a comparison with another USB Memory with Ubuntu 16.04 iso image. I verified on GParted:

PureOS 8.0 Live: System Files=unknowed, Options=boot, hidden.
UBUNTU 16: System Files=fat32, Options=boot, lba. (this boot normally).

What you think about?

By: Richard Palmer

Richard Palmer — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:22:46 +0000

Mint XFCE (18.2) doesn’t have this installed by default either. It also uses something called ‘USB Image Writer, as have the preceding XFCE versions. I have had some success using this programme but also some failures. A further disadvantage with it is that the file system on the created USB device is unreadable. Unetbootin has been slightly more productive for me and avoids the unreadable file system issue.

I’ve also used dd and that has worked well.

By: jake

jake — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 02:08:38 +0000

> Whenever we install Ubuntu and Linux Mint then this (Startup Disk Creator) installed automatically as part of default tools.

Mint Cinnamon (17.3) doesn’t have this installed by default. Instead it uses something called ‘USB Image Writer’. Maybe it’s the same program but the interface was altered somewhat.

I’ve lately burned in a few ISOs using ‘USB Image Writer’ and the debian-based stuff has booted fine. Having problems with non-debian stuff (arch-based and others). Most boot their menus fine but all end up not being able to find the ISO directory (weird, maybe it’s my USB hardware). I’m going to try uNetBootin to see if I have better success.

I did try multisystem for multiple ISOs on a disk (it installed so much stuff, including qemu) but it turned out to be a failure. Also tried YUMI (under WINE) and it too failed to create a multi-boot system.