[Bug 527972] Re: [Lucid Alpha 3] usb-creator.exe does not accept ISO selection on Windows XP system

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** Changed in: usb-creator (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  [Lucid Alpha 3] usb-creator.exe does not accept ISO selection on
  Windows XP system

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “usb-creator” source package in Lucid:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: usb-creator

  the Windows version of usb-creator included in the Lucid ISOs does not
  work.

  Test system is a Lenovo S10 netboot running Windows XP SP3.

  I pulled usb-creator.exe from the Alpha 3 Lucid netbook ISO and
  attempted to create a bootable USB disk.  Unfortunately, this fails.
  When usb-creator runs, the disk image panel is empty.  I click
  "Other..." and select the Lucid Alpha 3 netbook iso and click Open.
  The panel does not update listing the chosen image, and I am unable to
  continue at this point.

  Searching around on the web shows that this is NOT an uncommon problem
  and goes back at least to Karmic (which did not include usb-
  creator.exe in all the ISOs).

  Since usb-creator.exe is included in the ISOs and USB Install docs say
  to use usb-creator.exe to create a bootable USB device in Windows,
  this is a pretty big issue.

  What does work:
  unetbootin
  usb-creator on a Karmic system.

  I also tried Universal-USB-Installer.exe from PendriveLinux.com
  (listed as an alternative in the USB Install docs) and that too fails
  to work with Lucid as Lucid is not listed in the list of distributions
  on the latest UUI.

  So I was able to create a bootable USB device using usb-creator in
  Karmic, thus this issue seems to only affect the Windows version of
  this program.

  This really needs to be fixed if usb-creator.exe is going to be
  included in the ISOs.

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