[TriLUG] unetbooti

[Roger W. Broseus via TriLUG]

I have had very mixed result creating bootable USB thumb drives. I recently 
had success doing so to create a boot drive for Xubuntu. However, using the 
same drive for a couple of other purposes, e.g., clonezilla and rescatux were 
unsuccessful. I tried both unetbootin and tuxboot on two different thumb 
drives and two different PCs. It did not appear to be the software/iso that 
was problematic because I *was* able to create bootable CDs.

My conclusion: YMMV. No, make that YMWV - Your Mileage /_*W*_ill/ Vary when 
creating bootable thumb drives. My fall back: do it on a CD or DVD. Boot from 
an external CD/DVD drive for small laptops without an optical drive built-in.

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Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
     Email: RogerB at bronord.com
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