Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:26 am
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Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:36 am
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ Has it all sorted now, this is the best one to use. Persistence works a treat and it's so simple to use.
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:26 am
Take a look at this it seems quite interesting Livecd/USB with persistence and a virtual Machine in Windows.
http://www.howtogeek.com/65888/create-a ... li/%20LILI
'kin eck what'll they think of next?
http://www.howtogeek.com/65888/create-a ... li/%20LILI
'kin eck what'll they think of next?
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 8:59 pm
Good tut. I found unetbootin didn't format the usb with a boot flag ( I spent a lot of time waiting for it to load before I figured that out) 
Easy way is to open the usb in gparted and manage the flags in there.
ian.
Easy way is to open the usb in gparted and manage the flags in there.
ian.
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 12:29 am
To expand a bit:
You can create a personalized & updated LiveUSB & DVD Mint image by:
1) Install a Mint Live DVD to a drive
2) Update it using Update Manager
3) Use Synaptics to install the additional packages you want and delete packages you don't want
4) Use Remastersys to create a live iso distribution image
5) Use Unetbootin to install the Remastersys image to a USB drive
this way you can have updated apps plus the ones you use often
For updated Mint 12 & 13 iso's click here
You can create a personalized & updated LiveUSB & DVD Mint image by:
1) Install a Mint Live DVD to a drive
2) Update it using Update Manager
3) Use Synaptics to install the additional packages you want and delete packages you don't want
4) Use Remastersys to create a live iso distribution image
5) Use Unetbootin to install the Remastersys image to a USB drive
this way you can have updated apps plus the ones you use often
For updated Mint 12 & 13 iso's click here
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:12 pm
Ive created two tutorials for Unetbootin
One for windows
http://youtu.be/pq2bsTh_dDs How to use unetbootin to make a liveusb from windows
And another from Mint/Linux
Install Unetbootin via synaptic then - Use Unetbootin in Linux Mint http://youtu.be/HRMzroqA1Wc
One for windows
http://youtu.be/pq2bsTh_dDs How to use unetbootin to make a liveusb from windows
And another from Mint/Linux
Install Unetbootin via synaptic then - Use Unetbootin in Linux Mint http://youtu.be/HRMzroqA1Wc
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 10:36 pm
I used UNETbootin to install to a LiveUSB with partial persistence. Someone taught me how to edit the syslinux.cfg file so that it would present boot options for both persistent and live.dojero wrote:I finally managed to create a persistent USB installation using Unetbootin.
After you've made your Unetbootin USB drive, you'll need to do two things: first, you've got to create a casper-rw file on the USB. That's the file that will hold all the changes. It's what makes a persistent install persistent. After that, you'll need to amend the syslinux.cfg file on the USB to include the persistent designation. The syslinux.cfg file is the boot file; if when you boot, you haven't specified that you're booting a persistent system, then the system won't use the casper-rw file.
In order to alter the USB drive, you should not boot into it. Instead, boot into another system and mount the USB drive so that you can save to it.
(continued...)
For persistence to hold, do I also have to edit the casper-rw file, as you describe above, or is this information out-of-date, from before UNETbootin offerred persistence as an option (which it does indeed offer now)?
Someone suggested I might have to also edit the isolinux.csg file... is that truly necessary? What does the isolinux.csg file contain or do? Thanks
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 3:18 pm
My desktop PC uses Windows XP Pro. I attempted to use UNetbootin to create a bootable 4 GB USB flash drive for Linuxmint Petra 16 Mate to evaluate Linux for installation on an IBM Thinkpad laptop which has no OS. The procedure seemed to go without any problem but when I inserted the USB drive in my Desktop PC and changed the boot menu to USB I received the message "boot error". Any recommendations? Thank you.
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:28 pm
I have a terabyte external hard drive that I'd like to install the live image onto. But UNetbootin would not let me select the external. After I used a command line switch to let me pick the drive letter, it still wouldn't work. How do I install the live image onto an external hard drive?
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin)
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:44 pm
Thank you. I just installed it on a USB for when I update to an SSD.
Re: Create Mint LiveUSB from Windows using a GUI (UNetbootin)
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:49 pm
Thanks! This worked for me installing LinuxMint 18.2. I tried making a liveUSB using Rufus, and it didn't work for me, even though I'd recently used it successfully to make a Live USB for puppylinux. The Rufus-created puppylinux stick worked fine booting my Acer computers. But Rufus stick didn't work for 18.2, I just got a bunch of error messages. I tried UNetbootin using the same usb flash drives and now have both my Acers updated from Mate. It didn't work at first but I kept fiddling with it, turning the computers off, messing with the boot order and f12, etc. After while it worked fine. Just in case anyone wants to try this. Also, I downloaded my own ISO image, so that may make a difference.