<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks, Nio, for a very thorough review! Thanks also to Aere and Israel for helpful replies. @ Israel, when you said "He also has an alternative installer with a prebuilt tarball for Lubuntu for a different method!", I suppose you meant OBI? On 4/30/2016 4:48 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:57247153.7030204@gmail.com" type="cite">Den 2016-04-29 kl. 22:44, skrev John Hupp: <blockquote type="cite">To install Lubuntu from bootable USB flash drive rather than DVD/CD, I found <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/InstallingLubuntu"><https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/InstallingLubuntu></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/InstallingLubuntu">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/InstallingLubuntu</a> (which seems to recommend UNetbootin) and then <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick"><https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick</a> (which has instructions for usb-creator-gtk, Unetbootin and mkusb -- in that order, if significant). I recall from previous posts that perhaps each of the 3 methods has suffered from this bug or that, and that at one time or another one or more methods was deprecated and one or more others promoted. I'm planning on installing the standard 32-bit and 64-bit desktop versions. Can someone sum up the current state of affairs? </blockquote> Hi John! I may be prejudiced, because I made and maintain mkusb ;-) Furthermore I have kind of 'adopted' <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick</a> I did not even think of changing the order of the recommended tools, maybe I should :-P I have also tried hard to make Canonical improve usb-creator-gtk - and finally succeeded. There is a working version in 16.04 LTS, and we can hope that it will be SRUed or backported (or whatever it should be called) to 14.04 LTS and 15.10 (maybe even 12.04 LTS). -o- I made mkusb because there were and are issues with the other tools, particularly when booting in BIOS mode. I think that mkusb works in all desktop (GUI) Ubuntu and Ubuntu based flavours, re-spins and distros from all current versions to all current versions, both in BIOS and UEFI mode. mkusb can make live-only drives using the very reliable cloning method of all hybrid iso files (of all linux distros). It can make persistent live drives of Ubuntu based and Debian Jessie iso files. These persistent live drives boot in BIOS mode and UEFI mode. But mkusb does not work in all linux distros. The text-only mkusb-nox and the simpler mkusb-bas work in Ubuntu Server and older and simpler linux versions, where they wrap a simple 'safety belt' around dd. ppa:mkusb/ppa works with Yakkety too. If you find a bug, please tell me, and I will squash it as soon as possible :-) I think Unetbootin works in most cases and many people like it, but there are reports of problems in some cases. usb-creator-gtk works sometimes, but is very buggy in 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and 15.10. As described earlier, the version 0.3.2 in 16.04 LTS works in a reliable way. Best regards Nio </blockquote> </body> </html>