Trouble making a bootable USB drive from Triskel
Newly converted to Triskel from Kubuntu, I'm happy with my desktop and want to put Triskel on my netbook. Since the netbook has no CD drive I have to do it with a USB stick/flash drive or whatever you like to call it.
That has worked in the past but it's failing now. I've downloaded the appropriate net-install ISO but I can't get it on the flash drive. When I use the basic "Startup Disk Creator" it doesn't even recognize the ISO, and it fails to Erase the selected flash drive. I tried several options from pendrivelinux.com without success. In particular, Unetbootin, which seems to work for lots of people, does absolutely nothing on my machine. I download it, make sure I have p7zip-full as directed by the instructions, chmod the downloaded file, and execute it: no response, no errors, nothing.
Have I failed to install something or configure my new system correctly? Does anyone have experience with making bootable USB drives?
Does your usb memory card work for other tasks? Some of my usb memory cards have stopped working ... I find them unreliable.
One option would be to use a USB CD/DVD drive. If you don't have one, perhaps you have a friend who would let you borrow one?
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Hi,
When I want to make a USB with persistent storage, I use unetbootin from
ppa:gezakovacs. If I just want the bootable image, I can just use the
dd command like so:
sudo dd if=trisquel-mini-6.0-i386.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=8M;sync
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