Reliable bootable USB creator in Ubuntu
I need a reliable application which will make usb pen drives bootable. Recently, I tried creating a bootable lubuntu-13-04-alternate usb on a ubuntu 12.10 system but ended up with 'boot error' when trying to boot. I tried startup disk creator as well as unetbootin. This is not the first time I am experiencing this, rather the above two utilities have always had high failure rates in my experience. Universal-usb-installer, YUMI, LiLi have worked great whenever I tried them, but all of them are windows only! So I have two questions:
- What is the method to reliably create a bootable usb in ubuntu?
- Why does windows have some of the best bootable usb creators while linux dosent?
Try UnetBootin.
Worked everytime for me.
Install by :-
$sudo apt-get install unetbootin
And, always use as root
$sudo unetbootin
My pain killer is:
mkusb
Tested on Ubuntu 15.04 to burn 14.04.
Year 2020 Update
Balena Etcher
Features:
- Open Source. Made with JS, HTML, node.js and Electron.
- Validated Flashing. No more writing images on corrupted cards and wondering why your device isn't booting.
- Hard Drive Friendly. Makes drive selection obvious to avoid wiping your entire hard-drive.
- Beautiful Interface.
- Cross Platform. Works for everyone.
I've been using the .AppImage version. Good thing about it is that it is auto-updating and can be used on any linux distro.
KDE version of Start-up disk creator works better than the GTK version the times I've used it.