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@Siphonay
You shouldn't be using Unetbootin anymore since years ago.
This piece of software comes from a time where .iso images of Linux distros were made solely for CDs and didn't run on other supports. Unetbootin did replace the bootloader on these images with one that would be compatible with USB drives and such.
Now, ISOs are compatible with nearly any storage type, and the Unetbootin replacement tend to break stuff on the distro installers.
Alternatives ?
Windows : Rufus
Linux : Google "dd iso usb"
@Siphonay Also, it's often a good idea to call sync after a dd, in order to ensure that everything has been written, not just buffered.
@Siphonay will that expand to use all the storage, or just whatever size is on the image? Is there a flag for that?
I'm very dumb about iso files and just kinda pray until Linux boots and then let go and let the install wizard handle it.
@ikea_femme It's gonna be only the image's size written on your drive
If this was on birdsite with its 140 signs I would have written this:
"unetbootin sux lol if you're using it lol learn how to linux & install gentoo scrub"
@Siphonay no one can claim to linux unless they ran oldschool slackware and compiled their own kernals and damned near every fucking binary. Pfft.
@Siphonay Actually ``cp distro.iso /dev/sd?`` works too.
@lanodan_tmp cat with input redirection as well...
@Siphonay Now I wonder if saving file to a /dev/ works, maybe UIs should think of that.
@Siphonay speaking of tools, for use with isos, is there anything that's supplanted YUMI as a "I want to make a single flash drive able to boot six different things" tool? I've been out of the loop ever since my last job switched to PXE and clouds, given I also don't install OSes for fun these days.
@r4v5 I don't really know, I never used YUMI. It's not the kind of things I'd use, I really prefer a raw dd, because ISOs go out of date quickly.
I'll elaborate more on the dd part. I couldn't because I ran out of characters.
This is how you use dd to flash an iso :
dd if=/path/to/your.iso of=/dev/sdX
where sdX is your flash drive. Do not specify a partition number.
This erases stuff on the drive, so be careful about that. Also, to reuse the drive afterwards, you gotta create a new partition table and a partition on it for it to work.