Questions tagged [unetbootin]
Unetbootin is a tool that can be used to create LiveUSB pendrives.
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Make a DOS Boot Disk on a USB stick using a Mac
I'm trying to make a DOS Boot Disk on a USB stick using a Mac.
I don't really care if it's MS-DOS or FreeDOS, as long as I can use it to flash a faulty BIOS on a X9DRL-iF from SuperMicro.
I don't want ...
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How to access files on USB stick from FreeDOS?
I made a FreeDOS bootable USB stick with Unetbootin and then put some files in the root directory. When I booted it in Livecd mode, The files were not in the root directory or any subdirectories. How ...
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UNetBootin requiring a missing dwmapi.dll?
I downloaded UNetbootin for Windows from here, and am trying to use it on a machine running Windows XP. I get the error:
This application has failed to start because dwmapi.dll was not found. Re-...
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Why can't I just dd the Windows 10 ISO to an USB stick?
Why can't I just use isohybrid and then dd the Windows 10 ISO to a USB stick and boot it, and call it a day?
What is so special about this ISO?
Most posts refer to either using a Windows machine to ...
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Can I install a second instance of linux on a spare partition without usb-disk or CD
I have OpenSUSE (42.3) linux installed on the first partition if my hard drive and I want to install another distribution on a second partition. I do not want to use an USB drive or CD/DVD.
I've ...
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Unetbootin not recognising USB drive for Ubuntu installation
I'm trying to create a Live Ubuntu installer on a USB, using Unetbootin (on a Mac running OSX Yosemite). I followed instructions online and formatted my USB with Disk Utility, to MS-DOS(FAT) format ...
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How do I create a bootable flash drive running MS-DOS 6.22?
I'm trying to create a bootable USB for MS-DOS 6.22. I can't risk using FreeDOS or any other version of DOS because I'm working with a very niche utility that has the potential to break expensive ...
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Unetbootin persistence not working
I want to make this version of Ubuntu persistent on a USB stick, so I used UnetBootin which has an option for persistence (I chose 4Go), but when I booted on my Ubuntu Live and created a file, this ...
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USB pen drive not recognized after using UNetbootin. Why?
I am running Windows-7 32-bit on my computer. I came across an article glorifying Backtrack Linux and so I wanted to try it.
I downloaded the Backtrack5 RC3 (Live CD) ISO from softpedia and ...
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Creating a Windows XP Professional PE USB ISO on Linux
I am attempting to create a Windows XP PE ISO on Ubuntu 16.04. So far the best way I found was the apparently popular Gandalf PE version that I downloaded and burned to USB.
I am using UNetbootin as ...
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Installing Ubuntu with secure boot on and no way to disable it?
I don't have any OS installed. I wanted to install Win10 but it failed with error code 0x80070570 during install.
Now, I want to go back to Ubuntu but I am not able to (Only Unetbootin screen shows ...
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Windows 7 Boot Failure after Unetbootin Installation of Ubuntu due to Partition Type
I successfully installed Ubuntu using unetbootin on my small Windows 7 PC. When I restart the computer I am given options to proceed with a Unetbootin boot or Windows 7 boot, as expected. The ...
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Does unetbootin work in win 10 with UEFI mode?
I would like to install Ubuntu 15.10 using unetbootin and no usb key -thus using unetbootin with Hard Disk (frugal) install mode.
However nowhere in the documentation could I see if unetbootin will ...
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Trying to boot a windows 8.1 ISO from usb
My hard drive randomly decided to stop booting my windows os so I downloaded a windows 8.1 ISO and installed it to my USB using Unetbootin. In my BIOS, launch csm is disabled as well as fast boot. My ...
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Can we install WinUSB in Kali linux
I want to create Bootable USB flash drive for Windows 7. I am trying to do this on Kali Linux. The default program "unetbootin" in kali does not support for Windows.
The another one which i found was "...
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bootable USB key cannot boot in legacy mode?
I used the netbootin to generate a Mint 17.1 live USB on a EFI kubuntu system. It can be boot in computer with UEFI mode. However, if I change to legacy mode, the live USB cannot boot at all.
Is ...
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Bootable USB does not work [closed]
I tried to install Windows 7 on a bootable USB.
It was successful and it told me to reboot now. I clicked it and then it rebooted, and when I selected the USB on boot, this happened:
When I opened ...
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Tuxboot vs UNetbootin?
Tuxboot docs:
Tuxboot helps you to create a bootable Live USB drive for Clonezilla live, DRBL live, GParted live and Tux2live. It is modified from UNetbootin and runs on both MS Windows and GNU/...
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Installing CentOS from bootUSB with two ISO files
I want to install CentOS upon Windows 8(dual boot) replacing Ubuntu 11.04. I have two ISO files (dvd1 and dvd2). Suggest me ways to install the OS from USB. I tried using Unetbootin but it is not ...
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unetbootin windows 7 boot-loop
I created a windows 7 usb stick with unetbootin on ubuntu. When I restart the computer from usb, I get to a screen with only one option: 'default' and a contdown for 10 seconds.
When I choose this ...
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Installation of Windows with Unetbootin won't finish
Loaded an ISO with Win Server 2008 R2 onto a flash drive using Unetbootin. Booted just fine, went through most of the install process, server reboots just before "completing installation" then after ...
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Unetbootin stops at 0% extracting bootloader configuration
I'm running debian 7 stable release with unetbootin 575-1
If I run 'sudo unetbootin' and select my ISO image (boot-rescue-32bit.iso) and select my newly formatted USB drive click ok, then unetbootin ...
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how to make a correct bootable usb of a linux distro?
well I have been installing different distros of linux from by usb from time to time. And I always followed same method which until today stopped working for me.
So I use to format my usb with ...
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Can't install Ubuntu 14.04 because it says root file system is not defined
I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 and whenever I get here,
it says that root file system is not defined.
I selected Try Ubuntu before you install option on boot menu and I booted it with UNetbootin.
How ...
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Where does unetbootin put the downloaded iso files?
I ran out of space in the root partition in Linux, because Unetbootin puts the ISO files it downloads into the root partition instead of /home, because it runs as root. Now I need to remove the ISO ...
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Unable to boot Grub2 using UNetbootin
I downloaded the ISO files for Super Grub2 Disk as well as a usb-live creator UNetbootin. After an apparent successful write to USB, a restart does not elicit a boot. I have checked my BIOS settings ...
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Change Unetbootin menu
I'm not sure if this should be here or on Stackexchange. let me know if this is the wrong site.
I'm developing an OS and for now I'm using unetbootin to load it from a USB. I only have one option on ...
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Unable to find live file system error while running Ubuntu from USB
First of all there are existing Q&A on this issue on different forums (mainly on AskUbuntu). But none of those solutions worked for me hence I am asking in a new thread here in SU.
I earlier had ...
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Can I install Debian from only one DVD?
When I try to download Debian from the main site, I find 4 DVDs images of 4 GB.
Is it possible to install Debian from only 1 DVD image?
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eeePC shows only two entries while using Unetbootin created Live CD, and both fails
I made a usb boot stick using Unetbootin, on mac osx (the latest one).
I created the stick (after formatting it), and then plug it into my EEE PC X101CH
the bios boot menu shows 2 options for the ...
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Puppy Linux cannot boot
I have downloaded Puppy linux slacko-5.6-PAE.iso , then used Unetbootin to burn it on my usb , when i am try to boot i am getting this message
puppy_slacko_5.6.0.sfs not found. Dropping out to ...
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manual steps to install linux on external drive from ISO file AND without booting into it?
I would like to know what the manual steps are to replicate the operation of unetbootin linux utility.
That is to say - how to manually install (and by word manually I really mean using the command-...
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Create a bootable USB with DFT using UNetbootin
My Dell inspiron 8600 crashed and on restarting its showing the "unmountable boot volume" error. Occasionally the HDD is also making a strange clicking noise. I suppose the HDD has died. It looks like ...
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How to format unrecognized USB drive?
I have used Unetbootin on one of my USB drive, and it seems to have partitioned it some way that it's no longer recognized by any OS. It's not even listed when I turn on my computer and press F12 to ...
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Lubuntu LiveUSB made with UNetbootin not bootable
I tried to make a Lubuntu 13.04 LiveUSB with UNetbootin (Mac version), but it is not bootable. Not on the PC I want to boot it, and not on the Mac I made the drive with (On Mac it just doesn't show up ...
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How to create an Ubuntu LiveUSB that will also boot on a Mac [duplicate]
I'm using a Mac computer and I'm trying to install Ubuntu on an external HDD. I have the iso file for installing the OS but after following these instructions from Ubuntu to create a bootable USB ...
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Delete Contents of Bootable USB on Windows
When I boot into Windows (7), my bootable USB (that I created with UNetBootin) is not showing the correct size. I think the space taken up by the bootable portion is not showing up. I want to wipe the ...
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Can I convert a USB-stick to an installer without losing data?
I would like to use my 64GB USB-drive to install Linux on another computer that has no CD drive. I already have some data on the drive (I already have a backup, but split across multiple locations and ...
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Laptop freezes upon booting Linux distributions from USB flash drive
I'm trying to boot a live distro on a VAIO YB35AL ultrabook. It doesn't have an optical drive, so I'm using a USB flash drive, and deploying the Linux ISOs to it using either unetbootin or Universal ...
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UNetBootin without admin rights?
Is it possible to run UNetBootin without admin privileges? I downloaded it then did chmod +x and then tried to run it with ./ but then a window popped up prompting for admin password. Is it not even ...
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This file does not have a program associated
I have used Unetbootin before many times, but not recently. Today I downloaded it, chose my ISO file and hit OK only to be greeted with this
This file does not have a program assoicated with it for ...
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Can't run gParted Live
I prepared gParted Live on my pendrive using unetbootin. When I try to boot from that pendrive I got blikning line and nothing more. What could me wrong?
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How to truly erase contents of USB drive?
I have a 2GB USB drive that had about 1.8GB of stored data on it. So I delete these files, and then I check the drive's properties, and I see it still has 1.8GB of data on it (only 0.2GB remaining)!
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How to run UNetBootin (or similar) on Linux?
I am trying to install UNetbootin on my Linux Mint (12 - KDE) machine and it will not run. I downloaded the Linux version of it (downloads as a unetbootin-linux-581 file) and set its permission to ...
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What can cause Linux installation via USB to fail on modern nettop?
I have a freshly unboxed Lenovo Ideacentre Q180, it ships with FreeDos so I'm trying to install Linux (XBMCbuntu ideally, but any distro will do for now).
I have used UNetbootin to make a bootable ...
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Bootmgr is missing for Windows XP
I know that there are so many posts on this subject but none of them worked for me.
I have Ubuntu on my machine and I would like to install Windows XP. As my CD/DVD reader does not work, I made a ...
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UNetbootin installation of Ubuntu Server fails and restarts computer
I tried to install Ubuntu Server from a flash drive using UNetbootin, because my optical disc drive is broken. When I created the bootable drive using UNetbootin, there was no problem.
When I tried ...
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How to access files on a USB stick after booting from that USB stick?
I booted computer from a USB stick using UNetBootin and Damn Small Linux. Now I want to include some files on the stick such that they'll be available to me once the computer is booted up in Linux. I ...
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Unetbootin and Windows 7
I use Unetbootin on WinXP and I have a Windows 7 iso that I want to make a USB bootable with. Everything works fine. I can boot the USB, but then I come to bootloader screen and I only see one option "...
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Recreating the master boot record of a Ubuntu USB installation?
I copied my unetbootin installation onto my Windows 7 machine, and formatted the drive and put something completely different on it. Then later I copied the installation it back on to the USB drive ...
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