Is it a brick?

[Grizzly]

11 October 2021  at 16:55, Liam Proven wrote:
Re: Is it a brick? (at least in part)

>On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 13:41, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

>Rufus only runs on Windows and I rarely use Windows. I find Rufus good
>but very *very* slow, so I only use it for writing Windows ISOs to
>USB.

It is only on my systems as a option, I used to use "123 UniversialUSB 
installer" but moved to LinuxLive (also rather old) when USb's from 123 stopped 
booting, (that has changed back again)

>In my experience it takes on the order of an hour to write a Windows
>USB, but at least with Rufus you can rely on the resulting key
>working. 

If you mean the Live Win7 I used a dedicated tool & a Win7 ISO

>To write a Linux key I use `dd` or UNetbootin or the Ubuntu
>Startup Disk Creator or something -- they only take 5-10min.

I use for most of my Ubuntu USB's but have not tried for non-Ubuntu USB's

UNetbootin seems to have been dropped from the "default" install, I guess that 
a apt install would cure that, (even though 

apt-cache policy unetbootin

showed nothing)

>The only one of those that has a built-in function to make a FreeDOS
>USB is Unetbootin, but it includes a really old version of FreeDOS --
>version 1.0. That's a decade old or something like that, and you'd be
>_much_ better off grabbing an ISO of 1.2 from the freedos.org website,
>or just using MS-DOS.

If I need another Usb Boot USB I will use the one made by "ActiveKillDisk 
BootUSBCreater" it has a memory manager that gives 32Mb Ram (only found that 
when doing a unrelated job)