[Discuss] Creating a USB bootable XUbuntu 15.04

[brendan]

disk creator has always worked for me, although sometimes i've gotten
errors when building and had to run it a couple times until i got a good
image.

pretty sure the filesystem needs to be ext2/3 if it's going to boot linux.

On 15-07-23 07:55 AM, Murray Strome wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried netbootin and I am pretty sure it
> created the USB OK, but my computer won't boot from it. Perhaps it is
> because the USB drive was formatted as exFAT. I will try again by
> reformatting it to FAT32 and see if that helps.
> Murray
> 
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> *From: *"Deryk Barker (Honorary Colleague)" <dbarker at camosun.bc.ca>
> *To: *discuss at vlug.org
> *Sent: *Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:01:47 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Discuss] Creating a USB bootable XUbuntu 15.04
> 
> I've never had any problems with unetbootin.
> 
> derykl
> -------
> Deryk Barker, Faculty Emeritus
> Computer Science Department
> Camosun College, Victoria BC
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: discuss-bounces at vlug.org [discuss-bounces at vlug.org] on behalf of
> Murray Strome [wmstrome at shaw.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 8:37 PM
> To: VLUG
> Subject: [Discuss] Creating a USB bootable XUbuntu 15.04
> 
> I tried to make a bootable USB XUbuntu 15.04 system. I tried Disk
> Creator and it seemed to go OK, and I was able to get the computer to
> start the boot from the USB, but it said that it could not find an image
> (or something like that).
> 
> Is there a better, more reliable way to make something that will boot
> from the USB (preferably with persistence)?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Murray
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