Create "Live USB" withinn Ububntu

[Phil Dobbin]

On 30/11/17 11:50, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I would like to find a (preferably GUI) tool to create a "Live USB" with 
> persistance from Ubuntu, I have so far used (mainly) 
> 
> "123 Universial USB Installer" or "Rufus"
> 
> Boh had minor probs, 123 of late failed "IF" the internal formating function 
> was used but would work if USB was pre-formated "outside" of 123, persistance 
> was never a problem, but the last few versions have not even made a bootable 
> Live USB (with or without Persistance)
> 
> Rufus has always worked fine but does not have persistance feature
> 
> so I tried YUMI Multiboot, has persistance but again cant seem to make a 
> bootable USB
> 
> LinuxLiveUSBInstaller (LiLi) has all the functions required (GUI a bit too 
> garish for me, but beggers...) works fine (so far) but AFAICS has not been 
> updated in 2.5 years, so always comes back saying "Distro not in compatibility 
> list but will try..."
> 
> So are there any GUI USB installers with persistance for Ubuntu, I have googled 
> and found many for windows but nothing else really

I've had great success using <https://etcher.io/> & would recommend it.
However if you're sticking to making Ubuntu CD/DVD/USB the inbuilt
Startup Disk Creator is pretty reliable & is virtually bulletproof to use.

Cheers,

  Phil.

-- 
an infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a
good program
     Linus Torvalds (from the Linux kernel source code)

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