<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Andale Mono;}</style></head><body>I don't know about Xubuntu, but I do know that I have used USB dongles to copy Linux Mint to my palmtop with no problems at all.<br>Gordon<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: brendan <brendan@ming.org><br>To: discuss@vlug.org<br>Sent: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 08:59:10 -0600 (MDT)<br>Subject: Re: [Discuss] Creating a USB bootable XUbuntu 15.04<br><br>disk creator has always worked for me, although sometimes i've gotten<br>errors when building and had to run it a couple times until i got a good<br>image.<br><br>pretty sure the filesystem needs to be ext2/3 if it's going to boot linux.<br><br>On 15-07-23 07:55 AM, Murray Strome wrote:<br>> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried netbootin and I am pretty sure it<br>> created the USB OK, but my computer won't boot from it. Perhaps it is<br>> because the USB drive was formatted as exFAT. I will try again by<br>> reformatting it to FAT32 and see if that helps.<br>> Murray<br>> <br>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> *From: *"Deryk Barker (Honorary Colleague)" <dbarker@camosun.bc.ca><br>> *To: *discuss@vlug.org<br>> *Sent: *Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:01:47 PM<br>> *Subject: *Re: [Discuss] Creating a USB bootable XUbuntu 15.04<br>> <br>> I've never had any problems with unetbootin.<br>> <br>> derykl<br>> -------<br>> Deryk Barker, Faculty Emeritus<br>> Computer Science Department<br>> Camosun College, Victoria BC<br>> <br>> ________________________________________<br>> From: discuss-bounces@vlug.org [discuss-bounces@vlug.org] on behalf of<br>> Murray Strome [wmstrome@shaw.ca]<br>> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 8:37 PM<br>> To: VLUG<br>> Subject: [Discuss] Creating a USB bootable XUbuntu 15.04<br>> <br>> I tried to make a bootable USB XUbuntu 15.04 system. I tried Disk<br>> Creator and it seemed to go OK, and I was able to get the computer to<br>> start the boot from the USB, but it said that it could not find an image<br>> (or something like that).<br>> <br>> Is there a better, more reliable way to make something that will boot<br>> from the USB (preferably with persistence)?<br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> <br>> Murray<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Discuss mailing list<br>> Discuss@vlug.org<br>> http://lists.vlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Discuss mailing list<br>> Discuss@vlug.org<br>> http://lists.vlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br>> <br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@vlug.org<br>http://lists.vlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<br></body></html>