Ubuntu Netbook .img vs. USB Startup Disk Creator

[Evan Dandrea]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Brett Alton <brett.jr.alton at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just downloaded the UNR image from
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/jaunty/ and noticed it was in .img format.
> The program to put Ubuntu onto a USB startup disk, USB Startup Disk
> Creator, can only read .iso files, so I'm wondering why the image was
> put in such a format or why USB Startup Disk Creator can not format
> .img images.

usb-creator (the latter program that you mention) is growing the
ability to write disk image files for the Karmic release and either
end up in my PPA for Jaunty or in backports.