Comments on: Ubuntu 8.04.4 to 9.10 Desktop i386 USB images

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:12:54 +0000

I tried a day ago with a fresh ISO, and it didn’t. I believe the netbook versions will, but I don’t care much for Ubuntu, let alone the netbook version.

In any case, ISOs as far back as April 2008 definitely don’t.

By: anticapitalista

anticapitalista — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:18:01 +0000

Whoops, sorry for double post.

# isohybrid filename.iso
# dd if=/path-to-iso-file/nameoffile.iso of=/dev/sdx

By: anticapitalista

anticapitalista — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:15:20 +0000

Doesn’t Ubuntu use isohybrid? (Part of latest syslinux/isolinux)

By: technologyunit

technologyunit — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:45:18 +0000

Dropping to a virtual terminal won’t work? Hmm.

Well I generally use a guide for putting grub2 on a usb flashdrive (done from linux) and then I past the iso files in the root directory. Once thats complete I just edit a simple text file and anything will boot. You can find it here http://goo.gl/AiOfL .

For anything that is Debian based I use ubuntu’s startup disk creator.

Hope this helps. dd is simpler but only works one at a time. I am sure you prefer it because some of your machines don’t work with large usb drives but I thought it might help.

By: Kevin G

Kevin G — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:17:04 +0000

Huh? I thought all Ubuntu Live CD isos could be written and booted with dd?