How to create bootable USB thumb drive with iso file

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Wed Apr 29 11:04:52 UTC 2020


On 29/04/2020 11:04, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 10:10 +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> Thanks for documenting the problems with Startup Disk Creator. I am
>> assuming that it needs to be run with admin privileges, but I agree
>> it's a mess
> 
> This is weird to read. I have used startup disk creator over several
> versions of Ubuntu and have never had a problem with it. However, I
> have only ever created Ubuntu bootable memory sticks.

I am probably being unfair, as I tested it some years ago and it failed, 
so I deleted it.

All any such system has to do is provide a usable and attractive 
interface for dd. *That*'s where most of them fall down.

P




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